The High Street, Southampton

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Louis Haghe was born in Belgium, the son of an architect. He trained under the Chevalier de la Barrière, later becoming his lithographic assistant. In c.1823, Haghe travelled to London, where his lithographs were printed by William Day, with whom he enjoyed a long, successful collaboration. By the 1820s, he had taken up watercolour painting. He later produced tinted lithographs, including 250 for Roberts’s ‘The Holy Land...’ (1842-49). From the 1850s he focused on watercolours. He was President of the New Society of Painters in Watercolours (1873-84) and a Knight of the Order of Leopold I. He was also a member of the Academies of Belgium (1847) and Antwerp, and the New Society of Painters in Watercolours. He died in Surrey at the age of 78.

Places

England, Hampshire

Subjects

carriage, wagon, topography, townscape/cityscape, dog, horse, boy, man, woman, parasol, coat of arms, lamp post, street, pavement, shop, church, spire, portico, cobbles, window

Materials & Techniques

coloured lithograph

Artist

Louis Haghe (1806 - 1885)
William Day (1797 - 1845)

Title

The High Street, Southampton

Date

1719

Medium

Coloured lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from the Parker Gallery, September 1972

GAC number

9706