Location

Country: Malaysia
City: Kuala Lumpur
Place: British High Commission

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

Subjects

carriage, horseback, playing, topography, Victorian Genre, tree, dog, horse, winter, fire, ice, snow, boy, park, country house/mansion, tent/marquee

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

John Burnet (1784 - 1868)
Robert, Jnr Havell (1793 - 1878)
Robert, Snr Havell (1769 - 1832)

Title

Buckingham House, Middlesex, a Palace of Her Majesty

Date

2 June 1817

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Agnews, March 1959

GAC number

4908