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John Gendall: Torrington, Devon   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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John Gendall  (1790–1865)  wikidata:Q15429123
 
John Gendall
Alternative names
John Gendal; Gendal
Description British lithographer and painter
Date of birth/death 2 January 1790 Edit this at Wikidata 1 March 1865 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Exeter Exeter
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artist QS:P170,Q15429123
Title
Torrington, Devon
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John Gendall was born in Exeter and began work as a servant to a barrister, James White, the uncle of John White Abbott. He was in London by 1811 working for Ackerman’s where he produced drawings to be engraved. He returned to Exeter in the late 1820s and moved into Mol’s Coffee House in the Cathedral Close in 1833-34. From then on he lived there with his wife, Maria, and worked as a drawing master, carriage painter, carver and gilder.
Depicted place Great Torrington
Date 1827
date QS:P571,+1827-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Watercolour, goauche and pencil on paper
Dimensions 120 x 183
institution QS:P195,Q7373646
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Credit line Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery
Source/Photographer Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery
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