William Godwin's Diary

Gilpin, William

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 1 time, and was a venue (V) 0 times.

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1800

17  May  1800

  • Name: Gilpin, William
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date: 4  June  1724
  • Death Date: 5  April  1804
  • Occupation: writer on art
  • Occupation: headmaster

Gilpin appears only once in the diary, but he does so in an artistic context - the Milton gallery - suggesting this identification. However, there are other contenders for the identification, including William Sawrey Gilpin,(1761/2–1843), landscape painter and landscape gardener, and his father Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807). We have suggested William Gilpin because a year after their meeting Godwin records reading Gilpin's The lives of John Wicliff and of the most eminent of his disciples; Lord Cobham, John Huss, Jerome of Prague, and Zisca published in 1765. But the identification is uncertain.

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This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.

Name Number of Meetings
Fuseli, Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli) 1
Johnson, Joseph 1
Bannister, John 1
Hoare, Prince 1
Reynolds, Samuel William 1
Smith, John 1
Banks, Thomas 1
Westall, Richard 1
Shee, Sir Martin Archer 1
Bourgeois, Peter Francis 1
Turner, Joseph Mallord William 1
Lawrence, Sir Thomas 1
West, Benjamin 1
Nollekens, Joseph 1
Flaxman, John 1
Smirke, 1
Northcote, James 1
Opie, John 1
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