Francis Arundale (9 August 1807 – 9 September 1853)
(Victorian Web). was an English architectural

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Life

Arundale was born in London. He studied under

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, and accompanied him to

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, making drawings for a description which Pugin published of the tour. In 1831 Arundale visited Egypt with Mr. Hay, and in 1833 he joined

Frederick Catherwood Frederick Catherwood (27 February 1799 – 27 September 1854) was an English artist, architect and explorer, best remembered for his meticulously detailed drawings of the ruins of the Maya civilization. He explored Mesoamerica in the mid 19th ...

and

Joseph Bonomi the Younger Joseph Bonomi the Younger (9 October 1796 – 3 March 1878) was an English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator. Early life Bonomi was born in London (Gunnis says Rome) into a family of architects. His father, Joseph Bonomi the Eld ...

on their tour to the

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, filling many portfolios with drawings of the interesting monuments and ruins of

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. He subsequently visited France and Italy, and spent several winters in Rome. He made drawings of objects of interest in the cities of Italy, in Greece,

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, and

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. He executed a few oil paintings from his Eastern sketches. Arundale died at

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in 1853.

Illustrated books

*''Selected Specimens of the Edifices of Palladio'' (1832). *
Illustrations of Jerusalem and Mount Sinai
' (Henry Colburn, 1837). *Benjamin Vale, Francis Arundale, Joseph Bonomi. ''The Early History of Egypt'' (1857).

References

Attribution: * 1807 births 1853 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters English watercolourists Landscape artists English engravers Painters from London 19th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub