Artist

Joseph Halfpenny

Joseph Halfpenny is a Romanticism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Joseph Halfpenny painted quiet English places in watercolor in the late 1700s. His 1792 view of a summerhouse near Ambleside shows trees, light, and a simple building. A year later he sketched the old stone bridge at Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. Both sheets are soft, detailed records of land and stone. Want a slice of British history? Tap The Hall Summer House at Ambleside to zoom in.

Works by Joseph Halfpenny

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.