Bristol School

[7] Other artists involved were Edward Villiers Rippingille, Samuel Jackson, James Johnson, Nathan Cooper Branwhite, William West, James Baker Pyne, George Arthur Fripp and Paul Falconer Poole.

[8] Patrons of the school included the antiquarian George Weare Braikenridge and the industrialists John Gibbons, Daniel Wade Acraman and Charles Hare.

[10] Depictions of excursions taking place in these landscapes include Danby's View of the Avon Gorge (1822), Johnson's The Entrance to Nightingale Valley (1825), and Rippingille's Sketching Party in Leigh Woods (c. 1828).

[11] Imaginary, fantasy landscapes in monochrome wash were common subjects of the evening meetings, usually taking inspiration from the Bristol scenery.

These included Rolinda Sharples,[14] Samuel Colman[15] and some of the topographical artists working for Braikenridge such as Hugh O'Neill,[16] Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham[17] and Edward Cashin.

[20] Other participants in the meetings probably included Samuel Jackson, Stephen C. Jones, James Baker Pyne, Henry Brittan Willis, W. Williams, Joseph Walter, George Arthur Fripp, Edmund Gustavus Müller,[19] and William Evans.

Two people on a cliff top look along the length of a river with wide muddy banks which snakes through a gorge towards the distant city of Bristol. A line of small boats sail along the river.
Francis Danby , The Avon Gorge, Looking toward Clifton , watercolour, c. 1820.
Four people sit together on a shaded lawn beside a riverside path. A small boat sails on the river, which bends away into a gap between sunlit wooded hills.
Francis Danby , View of the Avon Gorge , oil on panel, 1822.