General View from Matlock High Tor

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Joseph Farington was born in Leigh, Lancashire, son of the vicar of Leigh and rector of Warrington. He was educated in Manchester and studied under Richard Wilson in London from 1763. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1769 and became an Academician in 1785. His strength was in pen, ink and wash drawings of topographical views. He made extensive sketching tours of the UK and settled in the North Country from 1776. Works made there led to the publication ‘Views of the Lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland’ (1785). In 1780 he suffered a breakdown after his wife died. In the next year he moved to London. He died on a visit to his brother in Lancashire, when he fell down steps at Didsbury Church. His personal diaries were published in 1934.
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

England, Derbyshire

Subjects

topography, landscape C19th, river bank, tor, river, hill, stone/rock, cliff, path

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Joseph Farington (1747 - 1821)
M S Barenger

Title

General View from Matlock High Tor

Date

published 15 May 1817

Medium

Coloured engraving

Dimensions

height: 26.40 cm, width: 34.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Sotheby's, 22 February 1977

GAC number

13030