Title: Funeral of Edward Andrews

Height 24.5 cm, width 31 cm
Watercolour on paper
Date: 1821
James Storer (1771-1853)
Inscribed: A sketch from nature at Olney Bucks 23 September 1821
Provenance: untraced find c.1900
Museum No. OLNCN 42

The painting depicts the funeral of Edward Andrews on 23 September 1821. The round 'lock-up' in the centre of the Market Place has now gone, although the ball on top of the lock-up can still be seen in the museum courtyard.

James Sargant Storer was born in Clerkenwell, London, on 28 December 1771, the second child of Robert Storer (1746-1833), a member of his family's firm of watch and clock makers in Berkeley Court, Clerkenwell, and his wife, Sarah, nee Sargant. Storer was primarily a topographical artist, whose works are distinguished by their extreme accuracy and beauty of finish.

For some years he was associated with John Greig, another topographical artist, in collaboration with whom he published Cowper: Illustrated by a Series of Views (1803). He lived in Cambridge for some time, his son attending school in High Wycombe (probably the Grammar School). He died at his house at Islington, London, on 23 December 1853, and was buried beside his son at St James's Chapel, Pentonville.