English painter, born in Purley~on~Thames, near Pangbourne, Berkshire ~ studied at Byam Shaw School of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools ~ best known for highly detailed tempera still lifes ~

Eliot Hodgkin ~ 1905~1987

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A minutes silence of you please to remember the 'Putney Disaster' of October 20th 1786, when a dopey local clergyman crashed his cart into the Thames, taking his wife with him for an unexpected second baptism

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Shades of Canaletto here with this Venetian-style portrait of the River Thames, with Somerset House to the left and St Paul's Cathedral dominating the background skyline, by Thomas Malton, (1796)

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Sketches along the South Bank of the Thames, my favourite river: https://t.co/CTN3079RBI

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An intimate view of Old Waterloo Bridge in 1911 by Edward Louis Lawrenson. Against a background of refracted light on the surface of the Thames, a lighterman navigates a barge with the silhouette of Hungerford Bridge in the distance. Image © Trustees of the

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John Edgar Platt painted several scenes of WWII activity on the Thames, including this view of river traffic in front of Waterloo Bridge after the Dieppe Raid in 1942. Many of the craft on the river are flying the white ensign of the Royal Navy. Image ©

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George Scharf made hundreds of views of London after settling in England in 1816. On the River Thames, Bermondsey, May 1827. https://t.co/AN8OY0mXWT

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'20 bridges or 22'. graphic reps of the crossings on the Thames, completed on the postgrad at 2017 .

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crystal span, River Thames, 1963
Imagined by G.A. Jellicoe & Ove Arup

via https://t.co/mVqs2eGMwo

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