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SM P313. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
Sir Augustus Wall Callcott RA (1779 - 1844)
View on the River Thames below Greenwich
1827
Oil on canvas
Height: 54.6cm
Width: 85cm
Width: 85cm
Museum number: P313
On display: Morning Room (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
View of Greenwich Hospital and the River Thames taken on the Isle of Dogs.
Callcott became known as a landscape, river and coastal painter. He knew Soane through the Royal Academy being elected an associate in 1806 and a full Academician in 1810.
Callcott became known as a landscape, river and coastal painter. He knew Soane through the Royal Academy being elected an associate in 1806 and a full Academician in 1810.
Literature
Soane, Description, 1830, p. 15, 1835, p. 85
Bolton, A.T., The Portrait of Sir John Soane, 1927, p.
Thornton. P., and Dorey. H., A Miscellany of Objects from Sir John Soane's Museum, 1992, p. 42, fig. 36
New Description, 2007, pp. 31 and 116
Bolton, A.T., The Portrait of Sir John Soane, 1927, p.
Thornton. P., and Dorey. H., A Miscellany of Objects from Sir John Soane's Museum, 1992, p. 42, fig. 36
New Description, 2007, pp. 31 and 116
Exhibition history
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1827
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