Abbey Dale

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Landscape lithographer and painter Thomas Picken was the younger brother of draughtsman and lithographer Andrew (1815-1845). The brothers were two of four sons of novelist Andrew Picken (1788-1833) and his wife Janet Coxon (1792-1871). Thomas made lithographs for David Roberts's ‘The Holy Land’ (1842-49), William Payne's ‘The Lake Scenery of England’ (1859), John Parker Lawson's ‘Scotland Delineated’ (1847-54) and other works. He exhibited one painting at the Royal Academy in 1857 and ten at the Society of Artists, Suffolk Street (1846-75). Although generally thought to have emigrated to Australia in 1870, a 2004 entry in the ‘Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’ reports that he was an inmate of the Charterhouse, London, from 1879.

Places

Subjects

milkmaid, topography, landscape C19th, branch, tree, cow, horse, river, hill, man, woman, bucket, field, path, church

Materials & Techniques

colour lithograph

Artist

William Ibbitt
Thomas Picken (1815 - 1870)

Title

Abbey Dale

Date

1857

Medium

Colour lithograph

Dimensions

height: 51.50 cm, width: 76.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, March 1974

GAC number

10977