{"product_id":"george-elgood-54-high-resolution-images","title":"George Elgood 54 High Resolution Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eKing of the cottage scene, George Elgood, wasn't a one-trick pony. This collection contains 54 of his watercolour paintings that include pictures of Italy, Spain and France as well as many of his beautifully executed formal gardens and homes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe images are all 600dpi and range in size from 3105 pixels wide\/tall to 6380 pixels wide\/tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you’d like, including commercial use.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Samuel Elgood (1851-1943)\u003c\/strong\u003e was an English artist and illustrator who became well known for his paintings of formal gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElgood was born in Leicester, UK on 26 February 1851, one of a family of seven boys and two girls. After a private education at various schools, including Bloxham, he studied art at Leicester Art School under Wilmot Pilsbury, and then architectural drawing at the South Kensington Schools in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElgood's father died in 1874 necessitating a return home to look after the family business, although he continued to paint part-time. He went on painting expeditions and holidays with his art school tutor Pilsbury, and had some lessons from local artist John Fulleylove who was his brother-in-law, as well as travelling and painting with his wife, Mary Wellington Clephan, who was also an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the early 1880s, he was free to resume art full-time, becoming a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) in 1882 and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) a few years later. He exhibited several times at the Fine Art Society between 1890-1925.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElgood became known mainly as a painter of historic gardens, travelling throughout England, France, Spain and Italy in the course of his professional life. Many of his pictures were used to illustrate \u003cstrong\u003eSome English Gardens\u003c\/strong\u003e (1904) by the famous garden designer Gertrude Jekyll and Italian Gardens (1907) which Elgood wrote himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1908 he settled in an old 16th-century timbered house called \"Knockwood\" in Tenterden, Kent, where he designed and constructed his own formal garden in the grounds. He also designed and had constructed a farmhouse (in a vernacular style) and two local war memorials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe died at Knockwood on 21 October 1943.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 54 images","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51008286294346,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/George_Elgood_54_High_Resolution_Images.jpg?v=1749278314","url":"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/products\/george-elgood-54-high-resolution-images","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}