The Choir of Salisbury Cathedral

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Frederick Nash was born in Lambeth; the son of a builder. He studied architectural drawing under Thomas Malton jnr, before entering the Royal Academy Schools. Nash was employed by architects and drew plates for John Britton’s ‘Architectural Antiquities’ (1807) and Britton and E. W. Brayley’s ‘The Beauties of England and Wales’ (1801-09). From 1807 he worked as architectural draughtsman and lithographer to the Society of Antiquaries. In 1810, he became a member of Society of Painters in Watercolours. He also painted in oils. Nash made sketching trips to Calais, Caen, the Lake District, the Moselle and the Rhine. In 1834 he moved to Brighton. He turned to landscape painting, particularly views of Sussex, before his death in Brighton, aged 73.

Places

England, Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire

Subjects

choir, topography, clergyman, church, cathedral, church windows, tracery

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Frederick Nash (1782 - 1856)

Title

The Choir of Salisbury Cathedral

Date

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 48.40 cm, width: 40.80 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Christie's, 30 January 1953

Inscription

none

Provenance

Commissioned by Dr John Fisher (1748-1825), Bishop of Salisbury and Exeter; by descent to Mrs. W. Berger (great granddaughter of Fisher); by whom sold through Christie’s, London, on 30 January 1953 (Lot 35; with 2061), as ‘The Choir of Salisbury Cathedral from the Lady Chapel’, for £10.10.0; from which sale purchased by Agnew’s Gallery, London, on behalf of the Ministry of Works

GAC number

2060