George Garrard (1760 – 8 October 1826)

• Was an English animal, landscape and portrait painter, modeller, sculptor, engraver and printmaker.
• Garrard came from a family of artists, tracing his descent back to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger.
• He studied art first under a well-known drawing-master called Joseph Simpson, then with Sawrey Gilpin.
• In 1778 became a student of the Royal Academy, where, in 1781, he first exhibited some pictures of horses and dogs.
• In 1793 he exhibited "Sheep-shearing at Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire".
• In 1800 Garrard was elected an associate of the Royal Academy.
• He painted a large picture called "Woburn Sheep-shearing in 1804" and containing eighty-eight portraits of agricultural celebrities of the time.
• The picture was engraved in aquatint by the artist himself. 

• He died at Queen's Buildings, Brompton, London, on the morning of Sunday 8 October 1826, while kneeling to pray in a church alongside his family.

• Garrard married Matilda Gilpin, the eldest daughter of his mentor Sawrey Gilpin.
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