Location

Country: Ireland
City: Dublin
Place: British Embassy

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.

Places

Atlantic Ocean, Ireland, Valentia Island, Foilhummerum Bay, County Kerry

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, seascape/coastal scene, stone/rock, bay, shore, Irish, boy, man, woman, girl, path

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Robert Dudley ( - c.1893)
Thomas Picken ( - 1870)

Title

The Cliffs Foilhummerum Bay, Point of the Landing of the Shore End of Cable

Date

1865

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, June 1960

GAC number

5131