Anker Viaduct, Tamworth, on the Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

It is not known where or when the watercolourist Samuel Rayner was born. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1821 and after this date his works appear regularly in exhibitions at the Academy and various watercolour societies. Most are interior views of churches and historical buildings. Several watercolours by Rayner were engraved, including five or six which appeared in a series of books written by John Britton, each an account of the ‘Histories and Antiquities’ of a particular English cathedral. Rayner was a member of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours until 1851 when he was expelled after being charged with fraud. He married and had five daughters, all of whom painted. He died at his home in Brighton in 1874.

Places

England, Tamworth, Anker Viaduct, Staffordshire, River Anker

Subjects

rowing boat, fisherman, steam train, railway, topography, cow, river, viaduct, stone wall, bridge (rural)

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Samuel A Rayner ( - 1874)

Title

Anker Viaduct, Tamworth, on the Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

Date

c1840

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, August 1959

GAC number

4990