John Donowell (floreat 1753–1786) was an eighteenth-century British
architect and
engraver, considered to be the equivalent of
Thomas Sandby and
Thomas Malton as one of the principal architect-draughtsmen in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. He exhibited in 1761 at the
Free Society, then through the 1760s at the
Society of Artists, and from 1778 to 1786 at the
Royal Academy; prints, some hand-coloured, were published at this time.[1]
Donowell made a number of topographical drawings, mostly views of London, such as of the Grand Walk in the then-fashionable
Marylebone Gardens.[1][2]
Colvin, Howard, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, 3rd edition (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995), pp. 316-317.