Unknown Location

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon 1821-1906, was an English watercolour painter. He was born Hercules Brabazon Sharpe his father was Hercules Sharpe and his father in-law was Sir Anthony Brabazon and upon his death he declared the young painter had to adopt the name Brabazon to be able to inherit his estate, hence the name Brabazon Brabazon. The young artist was destined to become a lawyer as his father was, but he insisted on travelling to Rome to study art and music at the Academia di Santa Cecilia and the Academia di San Luca, upon his inheriting the estate in Ireland he became independent financially and he travelled widely and extensively, throughout the Mediterranean. There is a 1912 biography of the artist which promotes the most accurate version of his life. This picture was painted around the later part of the 19th Century, the building looks very much like the Port of London Authority Building in Trinity Square London, however this is definitely not the building depicted here, the PLA building was not completed until 1922 and Brabazon died in 1906, therefore the location of the picture remains a mystery and the general consensus of opinion is the location is in one of the North African states. If we manage to identify the building we will amend the biography. This picture is signed lower right with initials HBB. Another interesting point regarding this work is that it can be viewed on TV on the programme HENI Talks under the title of Hercules Brabazon Brabazon.