Westminster Abbey from Piccadilly

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Thomas Shotter Boys was born in Pentonville, North London. He was apprenticed to engraver George Cook, before moving to Paris during the 1820s. There he met Richard Parkes Bonington, with whom he worked. He returned to England in 1837 and initially engraved the designs of other artists and contributed to publications. In 1839, Boys produced his own publication, ‘Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent and Antwerp’, the first English book with lithographic plates entirely in colour. He was elected a member of the New Water Colour Society in 1841 and in the following year published ‘Original Views of London As It Is’. Boys spent the last 20 years of his life teaching drawing and working as a lithographer. He died aged 71 in St John's Wood.

Places

England, London, Church of St. John's, Smith Square, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Green Park

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, hill, man, woman, path, park, house, abbey, church

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

Thomas Shotter Boys (1803 - 1874)

Title

Westminster Abbey from Piccadilly

Date

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 20.50 cm, width: 46.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Agnew's, March 1956

GAC number

3443