Horsham art – Gustav George De Paris

This month’s artist, who has work in the Horsham Museum & Art Gallery archive, is Gustav George De Paris who was born in Dieppe, France, on the first day of 1829.

By the late 18th Century he had found his way to Brighton and had become a prolific artist, concentrating on watercolours.

However, he is best known for his collection of paintings recording the architecture of Sussex churches, amounting to around 1,200.

Horsham Museum & Art Gallery has five of his paintings (not currently on show), including the impressive 1897 work showing St Mary’s Church from Normandy, with the almshouses on the left.

The other watercolour was painted a year earlier and is of cottages in the Carfax.

Horsham Museum & Art Gallery is open all over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend 10am-4pm, but usually Tuesday-Saturday.