Lambeth Palace from the River

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

John Devoto may have been the son of a London-based painter and scene designer of Italian descent, also named John Devoto (active 1708-1752). Devoto junior is recorded as having lived at ‘Mrs. Goadsby’s’ in Bedford Street, Covent Garden. He established a drawing school at 139 Longacre in 1775. However, he is known to have exhibited only one work, ‘A Flower Piece; in Indian Ink’ at the Society of Artists of Great Britain in 1776.

Places

England, River Thames, London, Lambeth Palace, Lambeth

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, river, house, palace, tower

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), gouache (as artists material), pencil, gouache (as object name)

Artist

John, II Devoto

Title

Lambeth Palace from the River

Date

c.1770

Medium

Pencil and gouache on paper

Dimensions

height: 16.60 cm, width: 34.70 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Fry Gallery, July 1977

Inscription

verso bc: Devoto /

GAC number

13364