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Drawing
Crace, John Gregory, born 1809 - died 1889 - Enlarge image
Drawing
- Place of origin:
London (made)
- Date:
1841 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Crace, John Gregory, born 1809 - died 1889
- Materials and Techniques:
Watercolour
- Museum number:
E.2743-1914
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level E, case H, shelf 33
John Gregory Crace worked extensively for the 6th Duke of Devonshire at Devonshire House, London, and Chatsworth, designing a wide range of decorative schemes and furniture. He is also well known for his collaboration with A.W.N. Pugin, with whom he worked on the decoration of the new Palace of Westminster, and the medieval court at the Crystal Palace.
The Crace family were the most important firm of interior decorators working in the 19th century. They worked for every British monarch from George III to Queen Victoria and on a range of buildings that includes royal palaces, Leeds Town Hall and the Great Exhibition building of 1862.
