SAMUEL HIEROMYMUS GRIMM (1733-1794) - Receive artist alerts » - More items from this artist »
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Pen and ink and watercolour on Whatman paper

20.00inch wide    10.75inch high    (50.80 cm wide  27.30 cm high)

Frederick Locker Lampson; by family descent to Mrs Godfrey Fawcett

Rotha Mary Clay, Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, London, 1941

Born at Burgdorf near Berne, where his uncle had a drawing school, Grimm moved to France in 1765; in 1768 he settled in England and developed a successful practice as a topographical watercolourist. One of his patrons was the owner of Barborough, Cornelius Heathcote Rodes, whose ancestor Francis Rodes had built the Tudor house in 1583. A companion drawing to the present view has Grimm's signature and the date '178-', the last figure being cut off at the margin; it may date from 1785, when Grimm spent several months at the house.
In the 19th century Barlborough was for many years the seat of the Locker-Lampson family. Frederick Locker (1821-1895), author of London Lyrics, took the additional name of Lampson in 1885 on the death of his second wife's father. Since 1939 the house has been used a preparatory school.