Clovelly - 1814 From - A Voyage Round Great Britain by Richard Ayrton Lithograph by William Darriell (1769-1837) - English painter. Born in Kingston-upon-Thames in Surrey. His father was a bricklayer and owner of a public house called The Swan in near-by Chertsey. His uncle was an artist and later Royal Academician, and William became his pupil. Uncle and nephew left Britain in April 1785 to voyage throughout China and India. In Calcutta in 1791, they held a lottery of their combined paintings, using the proceeds to continue their travelling and sketching. They returned to Britain in 1794, where they put their experiences to use in exhibition-size oil paintings. He made sketching tours throughout the British countryside, publishing A Voyage Around Great Britain (1814-25). Around this time, in 1821, he was elected a Royal Academician. ?006 TopFoto