Location

Country: Spain
City: Madrid
Place: British Embassy

Frederick Christian Lewis senior was born in London; the son of a miniature painter. He was taught by his father and apprenticed to J. C. Stadler. In 1797 he entered the Royal Academy Schools. He married Elizabeth Exton and their children included painters John Frederick and Frederick Christian junior. He engraved Girtin’s illustrations to ‘Twenty of the Most Picturesque Views in Paris and its Environs’ (1803) and exhibited at the Royal Academy, British Institution, Society of British Artists and Old Watercolour Society. He also engraved Old Master drawings for Otley’s ‘The Italian School of Design’ (1808-23) and work by contemporary artists. Lewis served as engraver to several royals including Queen Victoria. He died in Middlesex, aged 77.

Places

France, Paris

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, river bank, river, house, church, dome, barge/canal boat

Materials & Techniques

etching, aquatint

Artist

Thomas Girtin (1775 - 1802)
Frederick Christian Lewis (1779 - 1856)

Title

View of the Pantheon taken from the Arsenal, Paris

Date

published 10 January 1803

Medium

Etching and aquatint

Dimensions

height: 20.00 cm, width: 57.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Baynton-Williams, November 1979

GAC number

14837