Gillingham Church, Kent

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Hospitality, Lancaster House

William James Müller was born in Bristol, the son of a Prussian émigré, naturalist and curator. At 15 he was apprenticed to James Baker Pyne. He also sketched with a local curate. Müller travelled widely, visiting Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Egypt, Greece, France and Turkey. His work includes watercolours of the Bristol riots, views of the Acropolis and illustrations for the publication ‘Müller’s Sketches of the Age of Francis 1st'. He is best known for depicting the monuments of the Near East. He also made sketching trips along the Thames and to Somerset and Rowen, North Wales. In 1839 he settled in Bloomsbury and joined a group of artists called the Clipstone Street Academy. His health declined rapidly from 1844 and he died aged just 33.

Places

England, Gillingham, Kent

Subjects

topography, landscape C19th, genre, tree, man, child, gravestone, path, churchyard, cemetery, church, bell tower

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

William James Müller (1812 - 1845)

Title

Gillingham Church, Kent

Date

1837

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 38.00 cm, width: 61.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Jeremy Maas Gallery, July 1973

Inscription

sdbr

Provenance

With Steven & Brown, London; from whom purchased by J. S. Maas & Co. Ltd., London, on 7 December 1972; from whom purchased by the Department of the Environment in July 1973

GAC number

10661