Maria Peitcheva 
Paul Sandby: Drawings Colour Plates 

Paul Sandby (1731 – 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolors, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768.His skills were applauded by fellow artists such as Thomas Gainsborough: if one wanted ‘real Views from Nature in this Country’, declared Gainsborough in 1764, there was no better artist than Sandby, who frequently ‘employ’d his pencil that way.’He also etched a large number of plates after his own drawings, a hundred of which were published in a volume in 1765. In 1760 he issued twelve etchings of The Cries of London. Sandby made extensive journeys around Britain and Ireland, sketching scenery and ancient monuments. He made his first recorded visit to Wales in 1770, later (1773) touring south Wales with Sir Joseph Banks, resulting in the 1775 publication of XII Views in South Wales and a further 12 views the following year, part of a 48-plate series of aquatint engravings depicting Welsh scenery commissioned by Banks.Sandby was described in his obituaries as ‘the father of modern landscape painting in watercolors’