# LAPORTE, George Henry [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1799–1873 - Profession: painter - School: German ## Biography German painter, active in England. He was a sporting painter whose work includes depictions of all aspects of country life: hunting, racing, shooting and animal still-lives. He was the son and pupil of the distinguished watercolourist John Laporte \(1761-1839\). He was a founder member of the Royal Society of British Artists, where he exhibited regularly. Many of his paintings were engraved for The Sporting Magazine and other journals. Laporte enjoyed a wide and prosperous patronage, and was appointed Animal Painter to the Duke of Cumberland and the King of Hanover. His painting technique is idiosyncratic and easily recognised: it is highly toned and colourful, with the paint applied in thin translucent washes - presumably reflecting the water-colourist's technique which he derived from his father. ## Related artworks - [Camp in the Desert]() - [Hunters and Groom in a Paddock]() - [Portrait a Bay Racing Pony]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()