A South View of Somerset House from Waterloo Bridge

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: HM Revenue & Customs, 100 Parliament Street

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd was born in London; the son of a watchcase maker. His elder brother was watercolourist George Sidney Shepherd, with whom he collaborated in 1813 on street views for Ackermann’s ‘Repository of the Arts’. He went on to build his reputation on depictions of fashionable cities. He made numerous sketching tours and, in 1818, visited France. He worked for Jones & Co. (1826-31), producing some 450 plates for the firm in total. He also worked as a drawing master. After 1842 he received regular commissions from the ‘Illustrated London News’ but still struggled financially. Collector Frederick Crace commissioned numerous watercolours of London sites from the artist (now in the British Museum). He died in Islington, aged c. 71.
Joseph Constantine Stadler was a prolific German émigré engraver of images after his contemporaries. His engravings are wide-ranging in subject matter and include landscapes, seascapes and portraits, as well as military, sporting and decorative subjects. Stadler was employed by the leading print publisher of the time, John Boydell (1720-1804). On 23 March 1799 Stadler married Ann Elizabeth Sandman at St Anne’s Church, Soho, in London. He was living in Knightsbridge when he died at the age of 73.

Places

England, River Thames, London, Somerset House

Subjects

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1791 - 1864)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)

Title

A South View of Somerset House from Waterloo Bridge

Date

11 April 1817

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Acquisition

Transferred from HM Revenue and Customs, 2017

Provenance

Bought by subscription for Inland Revenue, Somerset House, before 1929; transferred to GAC, 2017

GAC number

0/176