John Buckler (artist)

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John Buckler
Born
John Buckler

(1770-11-30)30 November 1770
Calbourne, Isle of Wight, England
Died6 December 1851(1851-12-06) (aged 81)
Newington, London, England
NationalityEnglish
ChildrenJohn Chessell Buckler (son)
RelativesCharles Alban Buckler (grandson)
One of Buckler's drawings of Ely Cathedral

John Buckler, Snr

FSA (30 November 1770 – 6 December 1851) was a British artist and occasional architect who is best remembered for his many drawings of churches and other historic buildings, recording much that has since been altered or destroyed.[1]

Biography

Buckler was born in

half-timbered style", according to Howard Colvin, who suggested that Buckler had a hand in the Gothic remodelling of Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire, for Lord Bagot, 1822–23. He or his son also designed the church of St John the Baptist, Pentrobin (now Penymynydd), in the County of Flintshire, 1843, for Sir Stephen Glynne, as one of the first Gothic Revival churches that came out of the Cambridge Camden Society.[3]

Theale, Berkshire
. The tower was designed by John Buckler.

Buckler's interest in art developed over time, and his first published works were two

Royal Academy every year from 1798 until 1849, and he became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1810.[5]

John Buckler died in Newington, London, in 1851, two years after his retirement. Forty-two volumes of his sketches[6] are now held by the British Library;[7] other places holding collections of his work include the Wiltshire Museum at Devizes, Taunton Museum, the William Salt Library in Stafford and the Bodleian Library in Oxford.[2][4]

Family

His eldest son, John Chessell Buckler (1793–1894), also an architect and artist, wrote several illustrated books on the history of British architecture, and his youngest son, George Buckler (1811–1886), and grandson Charles Alban Buckler (1825–1905) practised as architects as well. The Buckler family of architects and topographical artists has been the subject of a research project since 2013 hosted by the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ a b Colvin, 1997
  2. ^ a b c d e Tyack, 2004
  3. ^ "Summary Description of a Listed Buildings – St John the Baptist's Church". Cadw. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  4. ^ a b "About the collection". Staffordshire Views Collection. Archived from the original on 5 July 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2008.
  5. ^ The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year 1851 (1852), London:George Woodfall & Son, p. 361.
  6. ^ Mixed with those of his son, J.C. Buckler, whose "pencil drawings of ancient buildings are almost indistinguishable in technique from those of his father" (Colvin).
  7. ^ Add. Mss. 36356-97
  8. ^ SAHGB (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain), Newsletter, No. 111 Winter/ Spring 2014, p. 81
  9. ^ "Thesis Project – The Buckler Dynasty 1792–1901". ETH Zurich. Retrieved 23 June 2018.

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