Oil picture. 31 by 39 in.
On left the church of St. Martin, Ludgate, designed by Sir
Christopher Wren, its spire contrasting with the dome of St. Paul’s.
In mid-distance, before the façade of the cathedral, is a crowd
surrounding a State coach. Ludgate was immediately west of St.
Martin’s.
William Marlow, who painted this picture, which has been engraved,
was born in Southwark, 1740. He studied under Samuel Scott and at the
St. Martin’s Lane Academy, travelled in France and Italy, and achieved
some success as a landscape painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy
and elsewhere, views of London being perhaps his most successful
work. Horace Walpole, in his note on Scott, praises him highly. He
died at Twickenham in 1813.
By W. MARLOW, 1792 (1740-1813).
_Lent by the Governor and Directors of the Bank of England._