Arlington Court from the South East
Thomas Lee (1794 - 1834)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1820 - 1834
Materials
Watercolour on paper
Measurements
425 x 521 mm
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Arlington Court, Devon
NT 985768
Summary
Watercolour on paper, Arlington Court from the south east, by Thomas Lee junior (Barnstable 1794 - Morthoe 1834). Architect of the house.Thomas Lee was son of a father of the same name (1756–1836), who had himself trained as an architect (under William Rhodes), winning the Royal Academy’s Silver Medal in 1776, but who inherited an independent fortune soon after coming of age, and went to live in Barnstaple. His son spent a short time in the office of Sir John Soane, but soon transferred to that of David Laing. He was admitted to the Royal Academy’s School in 1812, and won the Silver Medal in 1816, for a drawing of Lord Burlington’s villa at Chiswick. In the same year, the Society of Arts awarded him a Gold Medal for a design for a British Senate House (RIBA). His brother was the painter, Frederick Lee, RA. His first work as an architect was the Wellington Monumnet on Blackdown Hill (1817–18). His other major work of domestic architecture, Eggesford House (1822), was in a quite different – Tudor Gothic – idiom. He drowned when bathing at Morthoe, on 5 September 1834.
Marks and inscriptions
On the backboard: View of / Arlington / in Devonshire, / now erecting for / Col. Chichester / Thos. Lee Junr / 16 Norton Street / Portland Place On the backboard: FRAMED BY / WALKER'S GALLERIES LTD. / 118 NEW BOND STREET / LONDON W1
Makers and roles
Thomas Lee (1794 - 1834), architect
References
Royal Academy, 1822, no.447