Old King's Gate, King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Joseph Murray Ince (Presteigne 1806 – Presteigne 1859)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1832
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
340 x 245 mm
Place of origin
Cambridge
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515830
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Old King's Gate, King's College Chapel, Cambridge by Joseph Murray Ince (Presteigne 1806 – Presteigne 1859), circa 1832. Ince was primarily a painter of landscape in watercolours. Born in Radnorshire, he was a pupil of David Cox the elder in 1823-4 before going to went to London and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1826. He also occasional exhibited at the British Institution and other galleries (16 works at RA, 23 at BI and 137 at Royal Society of British Artists). In 1832 he was resident in Cambridge, where he made many architectural drawings. His other landscape includes the scenery and coastal scenes in Devon and Wales with inland views of his native Radnor, Hereford and other architectural pieces of Oxford and Cambridge. In about 1835 he returned to Presteign, inheriting some property from parents.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Joseph Murray Ince (Presteigne 1806 – Presteigne 1859), artist