The Market House, Amersham, Buckinghamshire

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

John Buckler was born on the Isle of Wight. In 1785 he became a steward of Magdalen College, Oxford. For seven years he was also apprenticed to architect and surveyor Charles Thomas Cracklow. In about 1801 he became Bailiff and Collector of Rents for Magdalen College in Freemason’s Court and Southwark. His post with Magdalen allowed him spare time, which he spent working on his own architectural perspective drawings. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1796 to 1849. In 1799, Buckler published an engraving of one of his drawings of Lincoln Cathedral. For the next five years he made a series of views of English cathedrals and churches. By the end of his career, he had produced some 13,000 architectural perspective drawings.

Places

England, Amersham, Buckinghamshire

Subjects

walking, topography, genre, townscape/cityscape, tree, weathervane, man, woman, market, fence, flagpole, signage, street, pavement, pub, house, bell tower, tower

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), wash drawing, wash, grey

Artist

John Buckler (1770 - 1851)

Title

The Market House, Amersham, Buckinghamshire

Date

1838

Medium

Grey wash on paper

Acquisition

Purchased from William Drummond - Covent Garden Gallery, July 1977

Inscription

br: J.Buckler 1838. ; bc: The Market House at Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

GAC number

13366