Frederick Nash (1782-1856) Drawn and etched

Engraved by F C Lewis

South West View of St George’s Chapel, Windsor

To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Exeter
London Published by F Nash, No 6 Asylum Buildings, Westminster Road July 12 1804
39.5x52cm

Frederick Nash was born in Lambeth. Initially studying architectural drawing under Thomas Malton he subsequently enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts. From 1801 to 1809 he worked with the antiquarians John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley, subsequently becoming a member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours – a group of painters who had left the Royal Academy following complaints of under-recognition of their works. Latterly primarily a landscape painter he toured the rivers of Germany.