George Cuitt (1743–1818)

• Was a British painter.
• Cuitt was born at Moulton, in Yorkshire.

• Having shown a natural taste for drawing and design was sent to Italy at the expense of Sir Lawrence Dundas, whose family had already been painted by him.

• He studied earnestly for six years at Rome, and also pursued landscape painting.

• He returned to England in 1775, and in 1776 he exhibited at the Royal Academy The Infant Jupiter fed with goat's milk and honey. • He afterwards exhibited portraits and landscapes, his last contribution being in 1798.

• Owing to frequent attacks of low fever he was unable to reside in London, and he finally settled at Richmond in Yorkshire.

• His portraits are elaborately finished, although very thinly painted, whilst his earlier landscapes show much ability and feeling in their execution.

• His son was the artist George Cuitt the Younger. 

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