page_title: Ambrose Poynter
section_title: Artist and illustrator
hierarchical_section_title: Ambrose Poynter / Artist and illustrator
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing of Northleach Church, Gloucestershire, England.
context_page_description: Ambrose Poynter was an English architect. He was one of the founding members of the Institute of British Architects in 1834.
context_section_description: Poynter lived in Paris between 1830 and 1832, where Lavinia Forster (his mother-in-law from 1832) provided a social centre for artists. They included William Callow and Richard Parkes Bonington, as well as the sculptor Henri de Triqueti who had married another daughter. Poynter sketched with, and studied watercolour painting under, Thomas Shotter Boys, who was a lifelong friend. He was an architectural draughtsman, and provided illustrations and articles in Charles Knight's Pictorial History of England (1837–44), and his edition of Shakespeare. He was a member of the Arundel Society and the Graphic Society. A student also of heraldry, he made drawings to illustrate Francis Sandford's Genealogical History of England.
caption: Ambrose Poynter, drawing of Northleach Church
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