Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834 1835 Oil on canvas, 92 x 123.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Fire consumed London’s famous Houses of Parliament on the night of…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) London from Greenwich Park exhibited 1809 Oil on canvas, 90.2 x 120 cm Tate Britain, London Like the view from Richmond Hill, that upstream towards the City from Greenwich Park is one of the most prized…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) London, from Greenwich 1811 Etching and mezzotint, 21.1 x 29.8 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This panoramic view is based on Joseph Mallord William Turner’s painting London from Greenwich Park (1809; Tate, London). The Queen’s…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Les chambres du Parlement, les mouettes (The Houses of Parliament, Seagulls) 1903 Oil on canvas, 81 x 92 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Escaping the Franco-Prussian War, Monet moved to London in the fall of 1870 and…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Parlement, Symphonie en rose (The Parliament, Symphony in Rose) 1900 Oil on canvas, 82 x 92.6 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone See also: • Palace of Westminster (London)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Charing Cross Bridge 1902 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 81.3 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Monet‘s Thames series was begun in the autumn of 1899 and the winter of 1900–01, from a fifth floor balcony of the Savoy…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Bassin de Londres (The Pool of London) 1871 Oil on canvas, 48.5 x 74.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Monet came to London in 1871 as a refugee from the Franco-Prussian war. This view of the Thames…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Eton College c.1754 Oil on canvas, 61.6 × 107.7 cm National Gallery, London This view is from the bank of the River Thames, looking across a sprawling meadow towards Eton College on the horizon. A shady glade gives way to…
Derain, André (1880-1954) La Cathédrale Saint-Paul vue de la Tamise (St Paul’s Cathedral seen from the Thames) 1906 Oil on canvas, 99.7 x 81.92 cm Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis See also: • St Paul’s Cathedral (London)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Waterloo Bridge 1903 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 92.9 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pont de Waterloo, effet de brouillard 1903 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Waterloo Bridge, le soleil dans le brouillard 1903…