North Front of Westminster Abbey

  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection
  • About the artist
    Thomas Malton junior was a teacher of perspective, draughtsman, etcher and aquatint engraver of views after his own designs and caricatures after Thomas Rowlandson. He was born in London, the son of the architectural draughtsman Thomas Malton senior and the brother of James Malton, who also became a well known draughtsman and aquatint engraver. Malton junior worked in Dublin for three years for the architect John Gandon and later studied at the Royal Academy Schools. He also worked as a scene painter, as well as running evening drawing classes, at which Turner took lessons in perspective. From 1796 until 1804 he lived in Long Acre, off St. Martin’s Lane. He is best known for his careful drawings of London buildings.
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  • Details
    Title
    North Front of Westminster Abbey
    Date
    Medium
    Colour aquatint
    Acquisition
    Purchased from F B Daniell & Son, December 1949
    GAC number
    1067