Linlithgow Palace

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

William Gawin Herdman was born in Liverpool, the son of a corn merchant. He enrolled at the Liverpool Academy in 1824 and later worked as an art teacher. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists and the Liverpool Academy, of which he became Secretary in 1848. However, he was expelled from the Liverpool Academy in 1857. In the following year he helped to found the Liverpool Society of Fine Arts and he was also involved in setting up the first shilling art union. Herdman wrote on diverse subjects including cosmology and skating, and composed hymns and poetry. He had 16 children, four of whom became topographical artists. He died in Liverpool at the age of 77.

Places

Scotland, West Lothian, Linlithgow Palace

Subjects

topography, tree, cliff, Scottish, man, woman, Scottish national costume, path, palace, tower

Materials & Techniques

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

Artist

William Gawin Herdman (1805 - 1882)

Title

Linlithgow Palace

Date

1854

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 48.50 cm, width: 73.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Appleby Bros, March 1971

Inscription

Sdbr

GAC number

9196