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A pair of paintings by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg in the Windermere Jetty Museum: “Belle Isle, Windermere, in a Calm” (1786) and same “in a Storm” (1785). De Loutherbourg had visited the Lakes in 1783, but these wild exaggerations were designed to delight a London audience
Visited the Painted Hall in Greenwich yesterday, my first since the renovations. Absolutely stunning - Thornhill’s paintings look magnificent and much improved visitor experience. Great introductory tour from one of the guides. #PaintedHall @orncgreenwich
In this night scene, Sandby depicts Sir WWW arriving at Bala. The tour was an opportunity for Sir WWW to visit his lands and meet his tenants, in some cases for the first time (he was only 21). At Bala he ‘entertained the populace with a bonfire and ample supplies of ale.’
The views derive from a tour of North Wales Sandby undertook with the landowner, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, in 1771. In "View of the River Dee three miles short of Bala with Cader-Idris Mountain near Dolgelli thirty miles distant" Sandby painted himself into the picture.
Glad I managed to get to see “Harald Sohlberg: Painting Norway” at Dulwich before it closes. Beautifully serene landscapes, radiant skies and intense colours. And “Norway’s favourite painting”: Winter Night in the Mountains. @DulwichGallery
The dragon - looking a lot like a large crocodile - is shown gobbling down its last victim, even as St George lances it through its jaws.
…the second watercolour of St Pancras’ Old Church, by John Wykeham Archer,1847 (British Museum)
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Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School, at No. 377 Strand. 1819, Hand-coloured etching and aquatint. (Britsh Museum).
Gentlemen were easily amused in those days, it seems.