Attributed to William James, active 1754–1771, British, Northumberland House, London, ca. 1759
- Title:
- Northumberland House, London
- Date:
- ca. 1759
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 11 3/4 x 16 inches (29.8 x 40.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.124
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.124FR
- Subject Terms:
- buildings | carriages | carts | cityscape | costume | equestrian | fence | genre subject | horse (animal) | houses | king (person) | lion | people | road | sculpture | shops | signs | square | statue | towers | wheels
- Associated Places:
- Charing Cross | City of London | England | Europe | Greater London | London | Northumberland House | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:344
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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
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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) [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) [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) [YCBA]
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