Chapel of the Trinity Watercolour By Albert Richardson

An extremely accomplished watercolour painting by English architect, teacher and writer about architecture and artist, Sir Albert Edward Richardson. The painting depicts a scene in the Chapel of the Trinity in Fontainebleau located in Paris with many figures inside. This is a very fine painting with superb composition and fine detail. The painting is a classic and very fine example of Richardson's work depicting architecture. The painting is in very fine condition the colours are slightly faded due to age, but it is otherwise free of imperfections. The painting is mounted behind glass and is presented in a wooden frame. This painting is titled with the artists name verso. A fine painting that would grace any home or collection.

This painting is one from a set of four paintings by Richardson. We may offer the other three paintings to the highest bidder.

Richardson's work sells for many hundreds of pounds at auction please see results in the picture section.

Sir Albert Edward Richardson K.C.V.O., F.R.I.B.A, F.S.A., (1880 – 1964) was a leading English architect, teacher and writer about architecture during the first half of the 20th century. He was Professor of Architecture at University College London, a President of the Royal Academy, editor of Architects’ Journal and founder of the Georgian Group. Richardson was born in London. He trained in the offices of Leonard Stokes and Frank T. Verity, practitioners of the Beaux-Arts style, and in 1906 he established his first architectural practice, in partnership with Charles Lovett Gill (the Richardson & Gill partnership was eventually dissolved in 1939). He wrote several articles for Architectural Review and the survey of London Houses from 1660 to 1820: a Consideration of their Architecture and Detail (1911). In the following year he was appointed architect to the Prince of Wales's Duchy of Cornwall Estate. His massive work, Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland (1914) established him as a scholar; in it he reappraised the Greek Revival architects C.R. Cockerell and Henri Labrouste. In his own work he was strongly influenced by nostalgia for the craftsmanship of the late Georgian era and the pared-down Neoclassicism of Sir John Soane in particular, but he recognised that his classical ideals needed to be developed to meet the challenges of Modernism. The result was a synthesis of traditional and modern approaches, which was adapted and applied to industrial and commercial buildings, churches and houses. His deep knowledge of and sympathy towards Georgian design also helped him in numerous post-war commissions to restore bomb-damaged Georgian buildings. Ironically, several of his designs – most notably, Bracken House in the City of London, the first post-war London building to be listed and protected from redevelopment - are now regarded as classic milestones of 20th century design. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1947 and was elected President of the Royal Academy in 1954; he was knighted in 1956. From 1919 until his death, Richardson lived at Avenue House, 20 Church Street, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, an 18th century townhouse in which he initially refused to install electricity, believing that his home needed to reflect Georgian standards of living if he was to truly understand their way of life, though he was later convinced to change his mind by his wife, Elizabeth Byers (1882/3–1958), whom he had married in 1904. They had one daughter.