View of the Tower of London

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Watercolourist John Gendall was born in Exeter and worked as a domestic servant, until his drawings came to the attention of Rudolph Ackermann. By 1811 he was working with Ackermann in London. Ackermann published his views of Dover and Calais (1820), the River Seine (1821), Hastings (1822), Edinburgh (1823), and numerous country seats. In 1824 Gendall returned to Exeter and soon formed a partnership with a Mr W. Cole, selling paintings and drawings, and running a framing business. After Cole’s retirement, he opened an art school. He exhibited landscapes in watercolour, gouache or oils, at the Royal Academy (1846-63) and was curator of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (1862-64), but retired after being injured in a rail accident.
Daniell Havell was an aquatint engraver of topographical views, military and genre subjects after his contemporaries. He was born in Berkshire, the son of painter Thomas Havell and may also have been the nephew of the engraver Robert Havell senior (1769-1832), with whom he collaborated on a number of plates.

Places

England, London, City of London

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, river, prison, tower, barge/canal boat, ship

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

John Gendall (1790 - 1865)
Daniell Havell (1785 - 1826)

Title

View of the Tower of London

Date

published October 1819

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, July 1965

GAC number

7125