The New Bridge, Chester

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Louis Haghe was born in Belgium, the son of an architect. He trained under the Chevalier de la Barrière, later becoming his lithographic assistant. In c.1823, Haghe travelled to London, where his lithographs were printed by William Day, with whom he enjoyed a long, successful collaboration. By the 1820s, he had taken up watercolour painting. He later produced tinted lithographs, including 250 for Roberts’s ‘The Holy Land...’ (1842-49). From the 1850s he focused on watercolours. He was President of the New Society of Painters in Watercolours (1873-84) and a Knight of the Order of Leopold I. He was also a member of the Academies of Belgium (1847) and Antwerp, and the New Society of Painters in Watercolours. He died in Surrey at the age of 78.

Places

England, Chester, Chester: Grosvenor Bridge, Cheshire, River Dee (Wales/England)

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, landscape C19th, genre, townscape/cityscape, cow, river bank, river, boy, man, woman, bridge (urban)

Materials & Techniques

lithograph, colour lithograph

Artist

George Pickering (1794 - 1857)
Louis Haghe (1806 - 1885)

Title

The New Bridge, Chester

Date

Medium

Colour lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, September 1961

GAC number

5596