PAUL, founder of the English school of water-colour painting, was sprung from a branch of the Sandbys of Babworth, and was born at Nottingham in 1725. After commencing his artistic studies in London, in 1746 he was appointed by the Duke of Cumberland draughtsman to the survey of the Highlands. His skill as an engraver brought him under the notice of Sir Joseph Banks, who gave him his patronage, and subsequently commissioned him to bring out in aquatinta (a method of engraving then peculiar to Sandby) forty-eight plates drawn during a tour in Wales. Sandby displayed considerable power as a caricaturist in his attempt to ridicule the opposition of Hogarth to the plan for creating a public academy for the arts. Having been a member of various artistic societies, he was chosen a foundation-member of the Royal Academy in 1768, and during the same year was appointed chief drawing-master to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. He held this situation till his death, and during that time he brought forth many artists, who afterwards gained a name in their profession. Sandby will be best remembered, however, by his water-colour painting. While it wanted the richness and brilliancy of modern water-colour, he nevertheless impressed upon his art the originality of his mind; and in his later pieces, in particular, decided progress is observable in richness and in harmony of tinting. His etchings, such as "Cries of London" and Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd," and his plates, such as Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered," are both numerous and carefully executed. He died in London on the 9th November 1809.