View of the Suspension Bridge erected over the Menai Strait in North Wales, looking towards Beaumaris

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

George Arnald was born in Berkshire and became a pupil of engraver and painter William Pether. He was based in London throughout his career and exhibited 176 paintings at the Royal Academy, 63 at the British Institution and two at the New Water-Colour Society. Portrait painter Henry William Pickersgill was his pupil from 1802 to 1805. Arnald became an associate member of the Royal Academy. He specialised in landscape and genre subjects, producing fewer marine paintings. However, his best known work is a marine subject: ‘The Destruction of 'L'Orient' at the Battle of the Nile’ (1825-27; National Maritime Museum). He died in London in 1841. Other examples of his work are at the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, and the Institute of Civil Engineers.
London-born Richard Gilson Reeve was the son, and most likely pupil, of Richard Reeve (born 1780). Both father and son were aquatint engravers, mainly of sporting and marine subjects.

Places

Wales, Menai Suspension Bridge, Gwynedd, Anglesey, Menai Strait

Subjects

topography, landscape C19th, strait, cliff, house, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, colour aquatint

Artist

George Arnald (1763 - 1841)
Richard Gilson Reeve (1803 - 1889)

Title

View of the Suspension Bridge erected over the Menai Strait in North Wales, looking towards Beaumaris

Date

published 1828

Medium

Colour aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, November 1959

GAC number

5031