Waterloo Bridge from the West with a Boat Race

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Topographical painter, watercolourist and lithographer William Parrott was the son of a farmer from Aveley, in Essex. He was initially apprenticed to engraver John Pye but later virtually abandoned engraving in favour of watercolour painting. Parrott exhibited in London at the Royal Academy (1835-63) and also at the British Institution, Royal Society of British Artists and elsewhere. He lived briefly in Paris (1842-43) and then Rome (1844-45), and published a series of twelve lithographs titled ‘Paris et ses Environs’ (1843). In 1851 he made a tour of Germany and he also paid frequent visits to Brittany and Normandy. Parrott occasionally painted figure subjects, including a caricature of J. M. W. Turner (1840; Ruskin Museum, Oxford).

Places

England, River Thames, London, Waterloo Bridge, Lambeth: Lead Works Shot Tower, Somerset House

Subjects

rowing boat, boat racing, topography, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, river, flag, bridge (urban), tower, oar

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

William Parrott (1813 - 1869)

Title

Waterloo Bridge from the West with a Boat Race

Date

published 25 June 1841

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, April 1956

GAC number

3528