Location

Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy

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.

Places

England, London

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

Artist

Thomas Picken (1815 - 1870)
Louis Haghe (1806 - 1885)

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