George Samuel was an English landscape-painter, working in both in oils and watercolors, noted for his topographical landscapes. Samuel exhibited annually at the Royal Academy, London, founded in 1770, from 1786 to 1823, and also at the British Institution in Pall Mall, London, founded in 1805. His works included the scenery of Cornwall, Westmorland, and other picturesque parts of England. His watercolors were influenced by Paul Sandby. He was a member of the sketching society in 1799, and one of the earliest workers in lithography. His death, in or soon after 1823, was accidental, caused by an old wall falling on him while he was sketching--a notable first in English art. In 1789 Samuel painted a view of the River Thames from Rotherhithe during the great frost, which attracted attention. His view of Holland House was engraved in William Angus's Select Views of Seats, that of Windsor Castle in William Henry Pyne's Royal Residences; and others in the Copperplate Magazine (1792) and The Itinerant (1799) by the engraver John Walker. Samuel also made in 1799 the designs for the illustrations to Grove Hill, a poem describing the residence of John Coakley Lettsome, by Thomas Maurice.