Queen Victoria’s Visit to Falmouth, 1 September 1843

Location

Country: Jamaica
City: Kingston
Place: High Commission

Landscape lithographer and painter Thomas Picken was the younger brother of draughtsman and lithographer Andrew (1815-1845). The brothers were two of four sons of novelist Andrew Picken (1788-1833) and his wife Janet Coxon (1792-1871). Thomas made lithographs for David Roberts's ‘The Holy Land’ (1842-49), William Payne's ‘The Lake Scenery of England’ (1859), John Parker Lawson's ‘Scotland Delineated’ (1847-54) and other works. He exhibited one painting at the Royal Academy in 1857 and ten at the Society of Artists, Suffolk Street (1846-75). Although generally thought to have emigrated to Australia in 1870, a 2004 entry in the ‘Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’ reports that he was an inmate of the Charterhouse, London, from 1879.
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