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Gendall, John
(b Exeter, bapt 2 Jan 1790; d Exeter, 1 March 1865). English draughtsman and painter. He began his working life as a servant to James White of Exeter who, recognizing Gendall’s drawing talent, sent him with introductions to London in 1811. He worked for the bookseller and publisher Rudolph Ackermann on experiments in lithography and became the firm’s draughtsman for aquatint engravings. Gendall made a series of London views, published as aquatints between 1817 and 1819. From 1820 he excelled in watercolour drawings, some taken from Augustus Charles Pugin’s sketches for Picturesque Views of the Seine (1821). He also worked at Hastings, Dover and Calais, and in 1824 at Edinburgh. From 1819 to 1827 he contributed views of country houses to the Repository of Arts, many of which were republished in Views of Country Seats (1830).
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