The East front of Kensington Palace, with part of the Great Lawn / Façade Orientale du Palais de Kensington, avec une partie du Grand Gazon

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Anthony Highmore was a painter of portraits and topographical landscapes. He was born in London to the artist Joseph Highmore (1692-1780), who was one of the most important artists of the 18th century. Anthony was a pupil of his father and worked with him up to the mid 1750s. He retired from painting at the same time as his father in the early 1760s.
John Tinney (died 1761), publisher, engraver and printseller, was the son of a member of the Merchant Taylor’s Company. For seven years he was apprenticed to the engraver John Stuart. Tinney established his own print shop in Fleet Street from the 1730s, where he sold a range of items, including imported French prints, prints after his own works, maps and drawing books.

Places

England, London

Subjects

topography, genre, townscape/cityscape, tree, man, woman, girl, 18th century costume, dress, fan, tricorn hat, lawn, palace, window, bench

Materials & Techniques

engraving

Artist

Anthony Highmore (1718 - 1799)
John Tinney ( - 1761)

Title

The East front of Kensington Palace, with part of the Great Lawn / Façade Orientale du Palais de Kensington, avec une partie du Grand Gazon

Date

Medium

Engraving

Acquisition

Origin uncertain

GAC number

12022