Alban Hall

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Frederick Mackenzie trained as a pupil of architect John Adey Repton. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy at 16 and soon afterwards began working for antiquary and topographer John Britton, illustrating Britton’s publications. From 1813, he exhibited his work at the Society of Painters in Watercolours, showing 97 paintings there in total. His early exhibits were almost exclusively views of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, while later exhibits were mainly English churches and cathedrals. He was elected a member of the Society in 1823 and served as its Treasurer from 1831. He also continued to illustrate books, three of which he published. In his 50s he married Mary Hine, a widow. He died at their home, near Regent’s Park, aged about 65.
John Hill was an aquatint engraver of topographical views, costume and marine subjects. He produced engravings after the work of contemporary artists, including Augustus Charles Pugin, Edward Dayes and Philip James de Loutherbourg. Hill worked in London from about 1800 to 1814. He later emigrated to the United States, where he died.

Places

England, Oxford: Merton College, Oxford: St. Alban Hall, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, dog, man, woman, girl, academic gown, college, student, street, pavement, university, chimney

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

Frederick Mackenzie (1787 - 1854)
John Hill (1770 - 1850)

Title

Alban Hall

Date

published 1 June 1813

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Geoffrey Glynn, June 1960

GAC number

5143