North Area

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Thomas Uwins was born in London; the son of a bank clerk. From 1797 he was apprenticed to engraver Benjamin Smith and entered the Royal Academy Schools the following year. Uwins initially exhibited miniatures but later concentrated on book illustrations, including several for publisher Rudolph Ackermann. He lived in Rome from 1824-32, where he became a successful portraitist and also painted Italian peasant scenes. Uwins was elected to the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1821, having been Secretary for the Society (1813-14 and 1816-18), and became a Royal Academician in 1838, serving as the Academy's Librarian from 1844. In 1845 he was appointed Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and, two years later, Keeper of the National Gallery.
John Bluck was an aquatint engraver, mainly of topographical views, but also of marine and sporting subjects after his contemporaries. He produced plates for numerous publications.

Places

England, London, Westminster

Subjects

statue (as Subject), sculpture (as Subject), topography, male portrait, gravestone, monument, abbey, church, religious/ecclesiastical interior

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, colour aquatint

Artist

Thomas Uwins (1782 - 1857)
John Bluck

Title

North Area

Date

published 1 September 1812

Medium

Colour aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Baynton-Williams, January 1978

GAC number

13581