George Samuel Elgood[1][2][3] (1851–1943) was an English artist and illustrator who became well known for his paintings of formal gardens.

Elgood'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.

Elgood became known mainly as a painter of historic gardens, travelling throughout England, France, Spain and Italy in the course of his professional life.

In 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.