Artist

Rippingille

Rippingille is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Samuel Rippingille was the kind of painter who carried a pencil in his waistcoat pocket just to sketch the boatmen’s shouts and the fishwives’ aprons right there on the Calais quayside. He spent years there, watching the Channel light play on the same cobbles every dawn. His watercolor of a fisher girl, her red skirt flapping, a basket of eels in one hand, catches that moment when work feels almost like dancing. Tap his "A Fisher Girl of Calais" next; it’s a pocket-sized time machine to 1820s northern France.

Works by Rippingille

Collections represented

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.