Description: Looking towards The Crescent. This picture is by Thomas Wakeman. Most likely born in Ulster, New York, Thomas Wakeman was an American watercolourist who chiefly painted notable buildings in New York, Road Island, and Massachusetts such as the Barnum Museum in Manhattan and the Vanderheyden House in Albany. See http://www.donaldheald.com/search/search_01.php?Author=WAKEMAN%2C%20Thomas%201812-1878 for one of his American pictures. The picture seen here of Buxton must have been painted on a visit to Britain (he also painted a picture c. 1840. of Doulton & Co's factory, Lambeth, in London, which can be seen on the internet at http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/lambeth/lambeth-north/doulton-1840.htm).