William Pars Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"View of the Chapel in the Garden at Strawberry Hill"
Title: View of the Chapel in the Garden at Strawberry Hill
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 18 x 24 in | Image Size: 14 x 20 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |
This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.
About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:
William Pars was an English watercolour portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman and illustrator. He is best remembered as a travelling draughtsman, responsible for some important antiquarian studies and pioneering topographical views.
Pars was born in London, the son of a metal engraver, on 28 February 1742. He studied at Shipley’s Drawing School, St. Martin’s Lane Academy, and also in the Duke of Richmond’s Gallery. He later returned to Shipley’s to assist his brother, Henry, who had become its director.
Pars had trained to become a landscape and history painter, but first earned his living as a portrait painter, exhibiting at the Society of Artists in 1760 at the age of 17, the Free Society of Artists in 1761 and the Incorporated Society of Artists.
In 1764, while still only 22, Pars achieved a turn in his career. Not only did he win a premium from the Society of Arts, he was also selected by the Society of Dilettanti to accompany Richard Chandler, the antiquary, and Nicholas Revett, the architect, on an archaeological expedition to Asia Minor and Greece. The result was published in ‘Ionian Antiquities’; four volumes illustrated from Pars’s drawings.
Pars returned to England on 2 December 1766, and soon after accompanied Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston to the continent, making drawings in Switzerland, the Tyrol and Rome. In 1769 he contributed seven views from Greece to the first exhibition of the Royal Academy. He was elected an associate in 1770, and in the following year he sent eight European views, chiefly of Switzerland and the Tyrol, together with one portrait. He contributed regularly to the academy exhibitions until 1776.
In the summer of 1775 he travelled to Rome on a bursary of the Dilettanti Society. Though he sent works back to London, to patrons and for exhibitions, he remained in Rome for the remainder of his life. He died in October 1782 from pneumonia, having contracted pleurisy following a trip to Tivoli, during which he had drawn standing in the Grand Cascade in the Grotto of Neptune.
