Jackson’s Bridge, Cumberland

Location

Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy

Frederick Waters Watts lived on the High Street in Lambeth, London, before moving to Hampstead in around 1821, where he remained for the next ten years. He then lived in Camden Town and returned to Hampstead, to live at Haverstock Terrace, in about 1838. Watts was a prolific artist who exhibited widely, including 76 works at the Royal Academy, 108 at the British Institute and 65 at the Society of British Artists. He presumably married as he had a least one child, a son named Frederick Hask Watts. In 1868, shortly after the artist’s death, ‘The Times’ reported that his son had died at the age of 31 on board a P. and O. steamer returning from Bombay.

Places

England, Lake District, Cumbria

Subjects

fishing rod, angling, topography, landscape C19th, genre, tree, river, hill, stone/rock, man, woman, parasol, road, bridge (rural)

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Frederick Waters Watts (1800 - 1862)

Title

Jackson’s Bridge, Cumberland

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 100.50 cm, width: 137.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Gooden & Fox, December 1955

Inscription

none visible

Provenance

Collection of ‘S. Court’; from whom purchased by Gooden & Fox, London, in April 1952; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in December 1955

GAC number

3407