England | United Kingdom | Thames | Westminster | Greater London | London | City of Westminster
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Not on view
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 132-133, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Ian Tyers, The tree-ring analysis of 23 panel paintings from the Yale Center for British Art , New Haven : dendrochronological consultancy report 470, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2011, pp. 15, 16, 89-91, fig. 55, CC78.3 .T94 2011 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
All three of the views of the river Thames that hang in this bay were painted in Utrecht in the Netherlands but were based on drawings made by Claude de Jongh in London. They may well have been aimed at the Dutch market rather than intended for British collectors. The central elements of this landscape are repeated in de Jongh’s other representation of The Thames at Westminster Stairs, which hangs nearby. In this version, however, de Jongh simplifies the composition by reducing the number of buildings and introduces a large and entirely fictitious tower to the right of the foreground. That de Jongh felt at liberty to improve his composition at the expense of its topographical accuracy attests to the growing popularity of the genre of landscape painting during the first half of the seventeenth century. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016