Abbey Dale

  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection
  • About the artist
    Landscape lithographer and painter Thomas Picken was the younger brother of draughtsman and lithographer Andrew (1815-1845). The brothers were two of four sons of novelist Andrew Picken (1788-1833) and his wife Janet Coxon (1792-1871). Thomas made lithographs for David Roberts's ‘The Holy Land’ (1842-49), William Payne's ‘The Lake Scenery of England’ (1859), John Parker Lawson's ‘Scotland Delineated’ (1847-54) and other works. He exhibited one painting at the Royal Academy in 1857 and ten at the Society of Artists, Suffolk Street (1846-75). Although generally thought to have emigrated to Australia in 1870, a 2004 entry in the ‘Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’ reports that he was an inmate of the Charterhouse, London, from 1879.
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  • Details
    Title
    Abbey Dale
    Date
    1857
    Medium
    Colour lithograph
    Dimensions
    height: 51.50 cm, width: 76.50 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Parker Gallery, March 1974
    GAC number
    10977