Location

Country: Other
City: other locations abroad

Louis Haghe was born in Belgium, the son of an architect. He trained under the Chevalier de la Barrière, later becoming his lithographic assistant. In c.1823, Haghe travelled to London, where his lithographs were printed by William Day, with whom he enjoyed a long, successful collaboration. By the 1820s, he had taken up watercolour painting. He later produced tinted lithographs, including 250 for Roberts’s ‘The Holy Land...’ (1842-49). From the 1850s he focused on watercolours. He was President of the New Society of Painters in Watercolours (1873-84) and a Knight of the Order of Leopold I. He was also a member of the Academies of Belgium (1847) and Antwerp, and the New Society of Painters in Watercolours. He died in Surrey at the age of 78.

Places

England, Falmouth, Cornwall, Carrick Roads

Subjects

rowing boat, seascape/coastal scene, Victorian Genre, dress, parasol, top hat, coat of arms, sailor (navy), royal/state visit, house, church, tower, paddle steamer, ship

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Thomas Picken (1815 - 1870)
Louis Haghe (1806 - 1885)

Title

Queen Victoria’s Visit to Falmouth, 1 September 1843

Date

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, May 1958

GAC number

4634