Catalogue of a collection of early drawings and pictures of London: With some contemporary furniture — John Shaqi
Catalogue of a collection of early drawings and pictures of London: With some contemporary furnitureBurlington Fine Arts Club
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Catalogue of a collection of early drawings and pictures of London: With some contemporary furniture
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This view is signed and dated 1824, and forms a fitting companion to
No. 34, which is of the same style. The artist, William Hunt, born
in 1790, had a great reputation in his day as a painter of fruit,
flowers, birds’ nests, and other subjects of the kind, and also of
rustic figures. His landscape is less known, and the works by him
here exhibited are executed with unusual freedom. In these examples
much of the outline is drawn with a pen.
The artist in this case must have been sitting on the balustraded
projection of a building, long ago destroyed, on the north side
of Pall Mall. He looked east, and the steeple of the church of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields appears in the distance.
By W. HUNT, 1824 (1790-1864).
_Lent by Mr. T. Girtin._
PLATE XIV. 33 CHURCH OF ST. PETER LE POOR, OLD BROAD STREET.
Watercolour. 13½ by 17½ in.
This is the old church of St. Peter Le Poor on the west side of Old
Broad Street, which in Stow’s opinion may have been so called because
it was “sometime peradventure a poor parish.” It escaped the Great
Fire, but traffic increasing, as it needed repair and projected into
the street, it was pulled down in 1788 and rebuilt farther back.
The second church, an indifferent piece of architecture, has been
destroyed under the Union of Benefices Act within the last few years.
_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
PLATE XV. 34 VIEW FROM THE CHURCHYARD OF ST. MARTIN’S-IN-THE-FIELDS.
Watercolour. 13¼ by 19½ in.
In “Notes on Prout and Hunt” by Ruskin for an exhibition in 1879-80,
he says: “Hunt learned his business not in spots but in lines. Compare
the sketch of the river-side, No. 124, which is as powerful in lines
as Rembrandt, and the St. Martin’s Church, No. 123, which is like a
bit of Hogarth.” The view is along the colonnaded west front of the
church, and up St. Martin’s Lane, of which the part here shown no
longer exists. The bit of churchyard with tombstones disappeared on
the formation of Duncannon Street.
By W. HUNT (1790-1864).
_Lent by Mr. T. Girtin._
PLATE XVI. 35 ENCAMPMENT IN THE GROUNDS OF MONTAGUE HOUSE.
Watercolour. 26½ by 19½ in.
The first Montague House, Bloomsbury, was destroyed by fire 19 January
1685-6, and the second, here shown, was designed soon afterwards by
a Frenchman, Pierre Puget, or Poughet. The encampment is on the open
space at the back of the mansion. The West Yorkshire Regiment is
represented marching past Dr. John Moore, Bishop of Bangor, afterwards
Bishop of Canterbury. Montague House had been bought for the British
Museum under an Act passed in 1753. Additions were gradually made, but
it was not until 1845 that the old building was entirely demolished.
S. H. Grimm, who painted this watercolour, which is signed and dated,
was born at Burgdorf, Switzerland, and settled in London about 1778.
He sometimes exhibited at the Royal Academy, and was employed by the
Society of Antiquaries, his work being chiefly topographical.
By S. H. GRIMM, 1780 (1734-1794).
_Lent by H.M. the King._
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