Temple of Minerva, Athens

Location

Country: Other
City: public exhibitions

William James Müller was born in Bristol, the son of a Prussian émigré, naturalist and curator. At 15 he was apprenticed to James Baker Pyne. He also sketched with a local curate. Müller travelled widely, visiting Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Egypt, Greece, France and Turkey. His work includes watercolours of the Bristol riots, views of the Acropolis and illustrations for the publication ‘Müller’s Sketches of the Age of Francis 1st'. He is best known for depicting the monuments of the Near East. He also made sketching trips along the Thames and to Somerset and Rowen, North Wales. In 1839 he settled in Bloomsbury and joined a group of artists called the Clipstone Street Academy. His health declined rapidly from 1844 and he died aged just 33.

Places

Greece, Athens, Athens: Parthenon

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, woman, jug, house, temple (religious building), ruin

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

William James Müller (1812 - 1845)

Title

Temple of Minerva, Athens

Date

1839

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 30.50 cm, width: 48.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Gilbert Davis, July 1964

Inscription

Sdbr

GAC number

1782