View of Westminster Bridge including Westminster Hall and the Abbey
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)
Joseph Farington (1747 - 1821)
Coloured aquatint
1 October 1790-
About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection
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About the artist
Joseph Farington was born in Leigh, Lancashire, son of the vicar of Leigh and rector of Warrington. He was educated in Manchester and studied under Richard Wilson in London from 1763. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1769 and became an Academician in 1785. His strength was in pen, ink and wash drawings of topographical views. He made extensive sketching tours of the UK and settled in the North Country from 1776. Works made there led to the publication ‘Views of the Lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland’ (1785). In 1780 he suffered a breakdown after his wife died. In the next year he moved to London. He died on a visit to his brother in Lancashire, when he fell down steps at Didsbury Church. His personal diaries were published in 1934.
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Explore
- Places
- England, River Thames, London, Westminster Hall, Westminster Bridge, Westminster Abbey, Westminster
- Subjects
- rowing boat, topography, townscape/cityscape, river bank, river, bridge (urban), government building, house, abbey, church, hall, sailboat
- Materials & Techniques
- aquatint, coloured aquatint
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Details
- Title
- View of Westminster Bridge including Westminster Hall and the Abbey
- Date
- 1 October 1790
- Medium
- Coloured aquatint
- Acquisition
- Purchased from the Trustees of the XI Marquis of Lothian, February 1946
- Provenance
- Collection of Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882-1940); from whose trustees, purchased by the Ministry of Works in February 1946
- GAC number
- 0/69