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Joseph Farington

Also known as: Joseph Farington; primary name: Farington, Joseph
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; British; Male
Life dates: 1747-1821
Biography: Landscape painter and topographical draughtsman, possibly colorblind; b. Manchester 1747; d. there 1821; in London 1763 as pupil of Richard Wilson, whom he assisted until 1767/8; entered RA schools 1769; exhibited SA 1756-73 and RA 1778-1813; settled in London 1781; became ARAR 1783 and RA member 1785; his 'Diary 1793-1821' is a key source of information about the London art world.
Bibliography: The diary of Joseph Farington, Yale 1978-98 (16 vols + index) K. Sloan, 'Two albums of drawings by J B Gilpin (1701-76)', The Magazine for the International Collector of Watercolour, Drawings and Prints, vol. 6, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 7-10 S. Hebron, 'In the Line of Beauty: Early Views of the Lake District by Amateur Artists', exh. Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 2008, pp. 49-68 John R Murray, 'A Tour of the English Lakes with Thomas Gray and Joseph Farington RA' (Frances Lincoln Ltd, London, 2011), concerning watercolours (now at Yale) and prints in William Byrne's 1789 publication 'Views of the Lakes etc. in Cumberland and Westmorland: engraved from drawings made by Joseph Farington RA, with text by William Cookson).

358 related objects

book of prints; print

Museum number: L,64.1-78 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1802-1810 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

drawing

Museum number: 1863,0110.251 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Joseph FaringtonFormerly attributed to:Thomas Girtin |
Production date: 1747-1821

drawing

Museum number: 1938,1112.10 |
Producer name: BIOG26910 Drawn by:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1801

drawing

Museum number: 1944,1014.121 |
Producer name: Drawn by:James Cavanah MurphyAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1760-1814

drawing

Museum number: 1938,1112.9 |
Producer name: BIOG26910 Drawn by:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1801

drawing

Museum number: 1948,1009.13 |
Producer name: BIOG26910 Drawn by:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793

drawing

Museum number: 1922,0612.5 |
Producer name: BIOG26910 Drawn by:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1789-1791

drawing

Museum number: 1948,1009.12 |
Producer name: BIOG26910 Drawn by:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793

drawing

Museum number: 1891,0511.39 |
Producer name: BIOG26177 Drawn by:Henry Edridge |
Production date: 1769-1821

drawing

Museum number: 1868,1212.106 |
Producer name: BIOG26910 Drawn by:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1747-1821

drawing

Museum number: 1872,1012.3426 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Joseph FaringtonFormerly attributed to:Henry Singleton |
Production date: 1747-1821

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1895,1015.28 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Richard EvansAfter:Sir Thomas Lawrence |
Production date: 1785-1871

drawing; album

Museum number: 1936,0613.4 |
Producer name: BIOG26910 Drawn by:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1792

drawing

Museum number: 1972,U.773 |
Producer name: Drawn by:John DaulbyAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1792

drawing; album

Museum number: 1922,0211.1-78 |
Producer name: BIOG26910 Drawn by:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1788-1792

drawing; album

Museum number: 1936,0409.1-55 |
Producer name: BIOG26910 Drawn by:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1788-1792

drawing

Museum number: 1881,1008.91 |
Producer name: BIOG26910 Drawn by:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1787

print

Title: The Village of Lowswater |
Museum number: 1930,0512.623 |
Producer name: After:Joseph FaringtonPrint made by:John Scott

print

Title: The sportsman Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: U,9.49 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BrowneAfter:Gaspard Dughet |
Production date: 1775

print

Museum number: 1930,0512.628 |
Producer name: After:Joseph FaringtonPrint made by:John Scott

print

Title: North view of the city of Rochester |
Museum number: 1873,0510.1127 |
Producer name: Print made by:Benjamin PouncyAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1790

print

Museum number: 1847,0713.78 |
Producer name: BIOG26910 Print made by:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1763-1821

print

Museum number: 1872,1012.4780 |
Producer name: After:Joseph FaringtonPrint made by:Frederick Rudolph Hay |
Production date: 1815

print

Museum number: 1856,0308.1321 |
Producer name: BIOG26910 Print made by:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1791

print

Title: The larder Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1842,0806.221 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1775

print

Title: The larder Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1842,0806.220 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard EarlomAfter:Maarten de Vos |
Production date: 1775

print; book-illustration

Title: View at Blenheim |
Museum number: 1871,0812.143 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Great Marlow |
Museum number: 1871,0812.167 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Dog and still life Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: Kk,4.40 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pierre Charles CanotAfter:Charles Jervas |
Production date: 1778 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Putney Bridge |
Museum number: 1948,0410.60 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Bridge of Augustus at Rimini |
Museum number: 1863,0725.627 |
Producer name: After:Richard WilsonPrint made by:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1776 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Stanton Harcourt |
Museum number: 1871,0812.139 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Thames Head |
Museum number: 1871,0812.132 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: North view of the city of Rochester |
Museum number: 1873,0510.1125 |
Producer name: Print made by:Benjamin PouncyAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: London Bridge |
Museum number: G,9.100 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Scene at Park Place including the Druids Temple |
Museum number: 1948,0410.44 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of High-Street in Oxford |
Museum number: 1948,0315.7.12 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of Richmond Hill, from Twickenham |
Museum number: 1871,0812.181 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Strawberry Hill |
Museum number: G,2.208 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Streatley & Goring |
Museum number: 1871,0812.152 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of Abingdon from Nuneham Park |
Museum number: 1948,0410.37 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Africa Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: Kk,4.13 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BrowneAfter:Paul Bril |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Stanton Harcourt |
Museum number: 1934,0807.2 |
Producer name: After:Joseph FaringtonPrint made by:Joseph Constantine Stadler |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: From Richmond Hill, up the river |
Museum number: 1871,0812.182 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Windsor Castle |
Museum number: 1871,0812.2333 |
Producer name: After:Joseph FaringtonPrint made by:Joseph Constantine Stadler |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Tower |
Museum number: 1880,1113.1669 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View from Nuneham towards Oxford |
Museum number: 1871,0812.147 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Lowdore Waterfall Views in the lake country |
Museum number: 1870,0514.469 |
Producer name: Print made by:William ByrnePrint made by:Thomas Medland |
Production date: 1785 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Culham Court |
Museum number: 1871,0812.162 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Eaton [sic] |
Museum number: 1948,0315.12.139 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View up the river from Milbank |
Museum number: 1871,0812.189 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of Purfleet, Erith, and Long-Reach |
Museum number: 1871,0812.201 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Richmond |
Museum number: 1871,0812.184 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Tower |
Museum number: G,9.97 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Battersea, Chelsea, & London, from Mr Rucker's Villa |
Museum number: 1871,0812.187 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Saint John Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: Ll,6.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:Simon François Ravenet IAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1780 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of Greenwich & up the River |
Museum number: 1948,0410.65 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of London from Lambeth |
Museum number: 1880,1113.1269 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Hardwick & Maple Durham |
Museum number: 1871,0812.155 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The lower end of Ulswater Views in the lake country |
Museum number: 1870,0514.459 |
Producer name: Print made by:William ByrnePrint made by:Thomas Medland |
Production date: 1787 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Gravesend |
Museum number: 1871,0812.202 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Waggoner Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: R,5.29 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BrowneAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1776 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of Somerset Place the Adelphi, &c from the Temple-garden |
Museum number: 1871,0812.193 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of Somerset Place the Adelphi, &c from the Temple-garden |
Museum number: G,5.265 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of Black Fryers [sic] Bridge, from Sommerset [sic] Place |
Museum number: G,8.77 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View towards Bassilden [sic], from Streatley Hill |
Museum number: 1948,0410.40 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of London from Greenwich Park |
Museum number: G,11.7 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1796 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of Reading from Caversham |
Museum number: 1871,0812.157 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Joseph Farington Esq RA The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits |
Museum number: A,2.105 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry MeyerAfter:Sir Thomas Lawrence |
Production date: 1814 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of Reading from Caversham |
Museum number: 1948,0410.43 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View in Broad-Street in Oxford |
Museum number: 1871,0812.146 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Pope's House |
Museum number: 1948,0410.59 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Fawley Court & Henley |
Museum number: 1948,0410.46 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Happy Peasants Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: Kk,4.3 |
Producer name: After:Herman van SwaneveltPrint made by:James Mason |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of Sion House, from Kew Garden |
Museum number: 1948,0315.8.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Jacob and Laban Le Grand Pont |
Museum number: U,10.52 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1783 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Wallingford |
Museum number: 1948,0410.38 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Tower |
Museum number: 1948,0315.8.101 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Waggoner Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2842 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BrowneAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1776 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Woolwich |
Museum number: 1871,0812.200 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Bisham Abbey |
Museum number: 1871,0812.165 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Ewen Mill |
Museum number: 1871,0812.134 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Pangborn & Whitchurch from Purley |
Museum number: 1948,0410.41 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Grange, in Borrowdale Views in the lake country |
Museum number: 1870,0514.467 |
Producer name: Print made by:William ByrnePrint made by:Thomas Medland |
Production date: 1784 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds, Yorkshire |
Museum number: 1873,0712.486 |
Producer name: After:Joseph FaringtonPrint made by:Piercy Roberts |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of Greenwich up the River |
Museum number: 1871,0812.199 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Buscot-Park |
Museum number: 1948,0410.30 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: View of Lambeth from Millbank |
Museum number: G,1.141 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Windsor and Eaton [sic] |
Museum number: 1871,0812.172 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The sportsman Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: Kk,4.21 |
Producer name: After:Gaspard DughetPrint made by:John Browne |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Penshurst |
Museum number: 1871,0812.203 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Abbey & Palace of Dumfermline |
Museum number: 1948,1014.12 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles Catton IIAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1792 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book of prints

Museum number: 1865,0610.1026-1029 |
Producer name: Published by:William ByrneAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The late Mr Garrick's Villa |
Museum number: 1948,0410.57 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Pangborn & Whitchurch from Purley |
Museum number: 1871,0812.156 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Streatley & Goring |
Museum number: 1948,0410.39 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Thames Head |
Museum number: 1948,0410.25 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Jacob and Laban Le Grand Pont |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3084 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettAfter:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1783 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Ewen Mill |
Museum number: 1867,1214.199 |
Producer name: After:Joseph FaringtonPrint made by:Joseph Constantine Stadler |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Woolwich |
Museum number: 1948,0410.66 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Constantine StadlerAfter:Joseph Farington |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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