A View of the Great Room etc. at Hall-Barn, near Beckonsfield in Buckinghamshire / Vue de la grande Salle &c a Hall-Barn dans la Comté de Bucks, appartenant a Edmund Waller Ecuyer

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

William Woollett was the son of an innkeeper, from Maidstone, Kent. In 1750 he was apprenticed to John Tinney at the Goldsmith’s Company. By 1759, he was studying at St Martin’s Lane Academy. Three years later he married Hannah but, after their five children died in infancy, Hannah also died in 1770. Woollett was later remarried to Elizabeth. His earliest prints are of country houses and gardens, after his own designs. He was first employed by John Boydell in 1760. His engraving after Richard Wilson’s ‘The Destruction of the Children of Niobe’ won him considerable critical acclaim and, as a result, Alan Ramsay invited him to engrave his portrait of George III. Woollett reportedly died ‘from the effect of an accident, unskilfully treated’.

Places

England, Hall Barn, Buckinghamshire

Subjects

grass roller, topography, genre, tree, lake, man, woman, girl, 18th century costume, tricorn hat, path, garden, lawn, country house/mansion

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

William Woollett (1735 - 1785)

Title

A View of the Great Room etc. at Hall-Barn, near Beckonsfield in Buckinghamshire / Vue de la grande Salle &c a Hall-Barn dans la Comté de Bucks, appartenant a Edmund Waller Ecuyer

Date

Medium

Coloured engraving

Dimensions

height: 38.00 cm, width: 56.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, October 1959

GAC number

5012