Part of West Side of Regent Street

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Snaresbrook Crown Court

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd was born in London; the son of a watchcase maker. His elder brother was watercolourist George Sidney Shepherd, with whom he collaborated in 1813 on street views for Ackermann’s ‘Repository of the Arts’. He went on to build his reputation on depictions of fashionable cities. He made numerous sketching tours and, in 1818, visited France. He worked for Jones & Co. (1826-31), producing some 450 plates for the firm in total. He also worked as a drawing master. After 1842 he received regular commissions from the ‘Illustrated London News’ but still struggled financially. Collector Frederick Crace commissioned numerous watercolours of London sites from the artist (now in the British Museum). He died in Islington, aged c. 71.
Little is known about engraver M. S. Barenger. He was the uncle of the engraver James Barenger (1780-1831), animal painter and the brother of a painter and glazier, also named James Barenger (1745-1813). He exhibited two works at the Society of British Artists in 1823; views of Canterbury and Oxford. At the time Barenger was living at 11 Church Row, St Pancras.

Places

Subjects

carriage, horseback, topography, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, dog, horse, boy, man, woman, girl, signage, lamp post, shop-front, street, shop, house, window, chimney

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1791 - 1864)
M S Barenger

Title

Part of West Side of Regent Street

Date

1829

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, July 1973

GAC number

10592