British, 1800 - 1866
An architect, Angell studied at the Royal Academy. While studying he went to Sicily to study ancient monuments and uncovered metopes and an ancient frieze while illicitly digging in the ancient city of Selinus. He could not recover the artefacts, but his findings were published in 1826.
He worked as an architect for the Company of Clockworkers in London, and by 1831 was a district surveyor for an area in London covering the Savoy and Hatton Garden, among other places.
In 1861 he supervised an excavation of Chertsey Abbey.
He designed a library for Benjamin Godfrey Windus, in which Windus' collection of J M W Turner's watercolours were hung. Angell himself had a collection of at least 12 paintings by Cotman.
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