A View from Richmond Hill down the River / Paisage du haut de la Montagne de Richmond en dessendant la Tamise

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Francois Vivares was born near Montpellier, France. He was apprenticed to a tailor but made drawings, etchings and engravings in his spare time. He moved to London, aged 18, to study under French engraver and draughtsman Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain and later under Italian painter Jacopo Amigoni. By 1744 he was publishing prints. He opened a print shop near Leicester Fields (now Leicester Square), producing prints after his own work, that of his pupils and ‘of the best Masters’. He became one of the most renowned landscape engravers of his time and is particularly known for engravings after the works of French painter Claude Lorrain. In 1766, he became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists. He died in London, aged 71.

Places

England, Richmond (Surrey), Surrey, River Thames

Subjects

rowing boat, horseback, topography, landscape C18th, genre, townscape/cityscape, horse, river, hill, boy, man, woman, 18th century costume, dress, fence, house, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Antonio Jolli (c1700 - 1777)
Francois Vivares (1709 - 1780)

Title

A View from Richmond Hill down the River / Paisage du haut de la Montagne de Richmond en dessendant la Tamise

Date

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Vicars Bros., March 1957

GAC number

3768