Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Hospitality, Lancaster House

Robert Havell senior, son of artist and publisher Daniel Havell, was born in Reading but moved to London as a child. After Robert launched his career, father and son collaborated on illustrations for Henry Salt’s ‘Twenty Four Views Taken in St. Helena’ (1809–10). However, the partnership was short-lived and Robert later established himself at premises in Fitzrovia. He married Lydia Miller Phillips and had a son, Robert junior. Robert junior and his father formed the firm of R. Havell & Son, working on numerous projects including ‘Birds of America’ for John James Audubon. The scale of this project led them to employ 50 additional staff and move to larger premises in Oxford Street. Robert senior died a year after the company expansion.

Places

England, London, Westminster Abbey, Westminster: Church of St. Margaret, Westminster

Subjects

wheelbarrow, horseback, topography, townscape/cityscape, dog, man, woman, soldier, fence, abbey, church

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

Robert, Jnr Havell (1793 - 1878)
Robert, Snr Havell (1769 - 1832)

Title

View of Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret’s Church / Vue de l’Abbaye de Westminster et de l’Eglise de Ste. Marguerite

Date

published 1820-1821

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Walter T Spencer, January 1953

GAC number

2013