Lincoln Minster, South View, from the City Prison and Court House

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.

Places

England, Lincoln, Lincoln Cathedral, Lincolnshire

Subjects

horseback, cart, topography, tree, horse, sheep, man, woman, road, pavement, church, cathedral, church windows, tower

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

Frederick Mackenzie (1787 - 1854)

Title

Lincoln Minster, South View, from the City Prison and Court House

Date

published 1853

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Agnews, July 1961

GAC number

5569