A View of Foots-Cray Place in Kent, the Seat of Bourchier Cleeve Esq.r / Veüe de Foots-Cray Place, dans la Comté de Kent, Maison de Bourhcier Cleeve Escuyer.

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

William Woollett was the son of an innkeeper, from Maidstone, Kent. In 1750 he was apprenticed to John Tinney at the Goldsmith’s Company. By 1759, he was studying at St Martin’s Lane Academy. Three years later he married Hannah but, after their five children died in infancy, Hannah also died in 1770. Woollett was later remarried to Elizabeth. His earliest prints are of country houses and gardens, after his own designs. He was first employed by John Boydell in 1760. His engraving after Richard Wilson’s ‘The Destruction of the Children of Niobe’ won him considerable critical acclaim and, as a result, Alan Ramsay invited him to engrave his portrait of George III. Woollett reportedly died ‘from the effect of an accident, unskilfully treated’.

Places

England, Foots Cray Place, Kent

Subjects

carriage, lute, musical score, topography, telescope, dog, horse, deer, bird, river, man, woman, tricorn hat, field, road, pond, lawn, country house/mansion, table (as Subject), sailboat

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

William Woollett (1735 - 1785)

Title

A View of Foots-Cray Place in Kent, the Seat of Bourchier Cleeve Esq.r / Veüe de Foots-Cray Place, dans la Comté de Kent, Maison de Bourhcier Cleeve Escuyer.

Date

c.1760

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, October 1959

GAC number

5022