Watercolour. 11¼ by 14¾ in.
This view is signed and dated 1824, and forms a fitting companion to
No. 34, which is of the same style. The artist, William Hunt, born
in 1790, had a great reputation in his day as a painter of fruit,
flowers, birds’ nests, and other subjects of the kind, and also of
rustic figures. His landscape is less known, and the works by him
here exhibited are executed with unusual freedom. In these examples
much of the outline is drawn with a pen.
The artist in this case must have been sitting on the balustraded
projection of a building, long ago destroyed, on the north side
of Pall Mall. He looked east, and the steeple of the church of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields appears in the distance.
By W. HUNT, 1824 (1790-1864).
_Lent by Mr. T. Girtin._