View in Parliament Street (shewing Whitehall, the Treasury &c), Westminster

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Scotland Office, Dover House, Whitehall

George Sidney Shepherd was born in Finsbury, London; the son of a watchmaker. He is thought to have attended Dr Cox Macro’s sketching academy and he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1800. In 1807 he made studies for Britton’s ‘Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain’ and also illustrated Booth’s ‘Architectural Series of London Churches’ (1818) and Wilkinson’s ‘Londina Illustrata’ (1824–34). With brother, Thomas Hosmer, he made views for Ackermann’s ‘Repository of the Arts’ in 1813. From 1832 he exhibited at the Society of British Artists. He was later a founder member of the New Society of Painters in Watercolour. By the 1840s his style had become more impressionistic. He was twice widowed by the time of his death in 1861.

Places

England, London, Whitehall

Subjects

carriage, horseback, wagon, topography, townscape/cityscape, dog, horse, boy, man, soldier, street, pavement, sentry box, church, spire, portico

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

George Sidney Shepherd (1784 - 1862)
Richard Roffe (1781 - 1846)

Title

View in Parliament Street (shewing Whitehall, the Treasury &c), Westminster

Date

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Presented to the Cabinet Office by Mr S S Wilson, November 1967

GAC number

7962