A View from the Summer House in Richmond Park up the River Thames

Location

Country: Senegal
City: Dakar
Place: British Embassy

Draughtsman, etcher and line engraver Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain (real name Phillipe) was a Frenchman, born in London. He fought at Flanders before specialising in landscape and topographical views. He made prints after works by 17th-century painters as well as contemporary artists, and also after his own drawings. Chatelain worked in London for the engraver and printseller John Boydell (1720-1804), for whom he engraved works by Claude and Poussin, and also English views. He produced some 50 views in and around London. Chatelain’s unique style of engraving and etching has led to his plates being described as both ‘lazy’ and as demonstrating ‘masterly wildness’.

Places

England, Surrey, Middlesex

Subjects

topography, landscape C18th, tree, horse, sheep, river, man, woman, house

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain (c.1710 - c.1771)
Peter Paul Benazech (c.1730 - 1798)

Title

A View from the Summer House in Richmond Park up the River Thames

Date

1 October 1755

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, November 1962

GAC number

5962