Westminster and Hungerford from Waterloo Bridge

Location

Country: Portugal
City: Lisbon
Place: British Embassy

Topographical painter, watercolourist and lithographer William Parrott was the son of a farmer from Aveley, in Essex. He was initially apprenticed to engraver John Pye but later virtually abandoned engraving in favour of watercolour painting. Parrott exhibited in London at the Royal Academy (1835-63) and also at the British Institution, Royal Society of British Artists and elsewhere. He lived briefly in Paris (1842-43) and then Rome (1844-45), and published a series of twelve lithographs titled ‘Paris et ses Environs’ (1843). In 1851 he made a tour of Germany and he also paid frequent visits to Brittany and Normandy. Parrott occasionally painted figure subjects, including a caricature of J. M. W. Turner (1840; Ruskin Museum, Oxford).

Places

England, London

Subjects

rowing boat, sack, ladder, cart, bathing, swimming, angling, topography, townscape/cityscape, horse, river bank, river, abbey, church, steamboat, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

colour lithograph

Artist

William Parrott (1813 - 1869)

Title

Westminster and Hungerford from Waterloo Bridge

Series Title

London from the Thames

Date

1841

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Presented by Sir Nigel Ronald, January 1954

Inscription

inside image: [lower left] Westminster & Hungerford from Waterloo Bridge [right] [text illegible]

GAC number

15837