Funeral of the Duke of Wellington: The Funeral Car Passing the Archway at Apsley House, 18 November 1852
Thomas Picken (1815 - 1870)
Louis Haghe (1806 - 1885)
Colour lithograph
published 30 April 1853
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About the work
- Location
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Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy
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About the artist
Louis Haghe was born in Belgium, the son of an architect. He trained under the Chevalier de la Barrière, later becoming his lithographic assistant. In c.1823, Haghe travelled to London, where his lithographs were printed by William Day, with whom he enjoyed a long, successful collaboration. By the 1820s, he had taken up watercolour painting. He later produced tinted lithographs, including 250 for Roberts’s ‘The Holy Land...’ (1842-49). From the 1850s he focused on watercolours. He was President of the New Society of Painters in Watercolours (1873-84) and a Knight of the Order of Leopold I. He was also a member of the Academies of Belgium (1847) and Antwerp, and the New Society of Painters in Watercolours. He died in Surrey at the age of 78.
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- Subjects
- carriage, horseback, statue (as Subject), topography, horse, boy, man, woman, girl, crowd, catafalque, coffin, state funeral, lamp post, street, house, archway
- Materials & Techniques
- lithograph, colour lithograph
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Details
- Title
- Funeral of the Duke of Wellington: The Funeral Car Passing the Archway at Apsley House, 18 November 1852
- Date
- published 30 April 1853
- Medium
- Colour lithograph
- Dimensions
- height: 55.50 cm, width: 72.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from the Parker Gallery, December 1978
- GAC number
- 14319