The High Street, Southampton
Louis Haghe (1806 - 1885)
William Day (1797 - 1845)
Coloured lithograph
1719-
About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection
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About the artist
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.
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Details
- Title
- The High Street, Southampton
- Date
- 1719
- Medium
- Coloured lithograph
- Acquisition
- Purchased from the Parker Gallery, September 1972
- GAC number
- 9706