Church Facade (after the French?)

William Frome Smallwood

1826–34 · Graphite · Drawings and Prints

William Smallwood trained as an architect and spent his brief career making detailed drawings of churches and old buildings in England, France and Belgium. Some were reproduced in the "Penny Magazine" and he exhibited examples at the Royal Academy. Here, he drew the main facade of a Catholic church in Brussels, a seventeenth-century building attributed to the Flemish architect Lucas Faydherbe (1617-1697). This replaced an older Gothic structure partly destroyed by Calvinists in 1584. A fine example of the Brabantine Baroque style, the church stands on the Place du Béguinage or Begijnhofplein.

Artist

William Frome Smallwood

Date

1826–34

Medium

Graphite

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963