Greater London | London | City of London | Charing Cross | Northumberland House | Europe | England | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17)
Publications:
Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy : Exhibition Labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, pp. 8-9, no. 23, N8219 K5 C761 1990 (YCBA)Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, p. 27, no. 23, N8219 K5 C76 1990 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 128-129, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
This is one of approximately thirteen copies after Canaletto by the topographical painter and picture dealer William James, who probably worked from a pirated engraving by the print seller Henry Bowles. Canaletto's 1753 view was of Northumberland House, the splendid London residence of his patron the Whig grandee Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland (ca. 1712-1786). James lived at the Golden Head in May's Buildings, St. Martin's Lane, not far from where Northumberland House stood near the junction of the Strand and Charing Cross. The equestrian statue of King Charles I by Hubert Le Sueur (1630-33) (on the right), was in April 1675 purchased by Charles II in April 1675, and placed in this spot, on a plinth designed by Sir Christopher Wren. It is still there. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005