Location

Country: Other
City: missing

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

England, London, Whitehall

Subjects

horseback, topography, townscape/cityscape, horse, boy, man, woman, girl, parade, Household Cavalry, soldier, government building, dome

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

George Sidney Shepherd (1784 - 1862)
Thomas Picken (1815 - 1870)

Title

The Horse Guards

Date

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, March 1975

GAC number

11829