A View from Richmond Hill up the River. Paisage du haut de la Montagne de Richmond en assendant la Tamise

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Royal Hospital, Chelsea (long-term loans)

Francois Vivares was born near Montpellier, France. He was apprenticed to a tailor but made drawings, etchings and engravings in his spare time. He moved to London, aged 18, to study under French engraver and draughtsman Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain and later under Italian painter Jacopo Amigoni. By 1744 he was publishing prints. He opened a print shop near Leicester Fields (now Leicester Square), producing prints after his own work, that of his pupils and ‘of the best Masters’. He became one of the most renowned landscape engravers of his time and is particularly known for engravings after the works of French painter Claude Lorrain. In 1766, he became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists. He died in London, aged 71.

Places

England, Surrey, London

Subjects

topography, townscape/cityscape, river, hill

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Antonio Jolli (c1700 - 1777)
Francois Vivares (1709 - 1780)

Title

A View from Richmond Hill up the River. Paisage du haut de la Montagne de Richmond en assendant la Tamise

Date

13 February 1749

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, November 1962

GAC number

5965