Somerset House, St. Paul’s & Blackfriars Bridge from Waterloo Bridge

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Topographical painter, watercolourist and lithographer William Parrott was the son of a farmer from Aveley, in Essex. He was initially apprenticed to engraver John Pye but later virtually abandoned engraving in favour of watercolour painting. Parrott exhibited in London at the Royal Academy (1835-63) and also at the British Institution, Royal Society of British Artists and elsewhere. He lived briefly in Paris (1842-43) and then Rome (1844-45), and published a series of twelve lithographs titled ‘Paris et ses Environs’ (1843). In 1851 he made a tour of Germany and he also paid frequent visits to Brittany and Normandy. Parrott occasionally painted figure subjects, including a caricature of J. M. W. Turner (1840; Ruskin Museum, Oxford).

Places

England, London, City of London

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, river bank, river, man, woman, 19th century costume, parasol, bridge (urban), government building, cathedral, spire, dome, tower, paddle steamer

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

William Parrott (1813 - 1869)

Title

Somerset House, St. Paul’s & Blackfriars Bridge from Waterloo Bridge

Portfolio Title

London from the Thames

Date

c1840

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, April 1964

GAC number

6397