The New Houses of Parliament and the Thames (Sunset on the Thames near Westminster with the New Houses of Parliament)
Henry Dawson (Hull 1811 - Chiswick 1878)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1875 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1190 x 1650 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 21147
Caption
Henry Dawson was born in Kingston upon Hull in 1811. Before finding employment as landscape painter he worked in the lace trade in Nottingham. In 1835 he gave up this profession and set up as a self-taught artist. In 1849 he came with his family to London, and settled at Croydon, where some of his best pictures of the capital and its river were painted. Dawson was influenced by Turner in the latter part of his career; the effects of this influence are clearly visible in this depiction of the Thames and the Houses of Parliament.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The New Houses of Parliament, Westminster (Sunset on the Thames near Westminster with the New Houses of Parliament) by Henry Dawson (Hull 1811 – Chiswick 1878), signed and dated (lower left): 18 H. Dawson 1875. This is later version of a composition of 1857. One of three works by Henry Dawson acquired by Antony Gibbs, the others were St Paul's at Sunset and A Quay in the Mersey
Provenance
Bought from the artist by the landscape painter, James Orrock (1829 - 1913); purchased by Antony Gibbs from James Orrock for £1500; purchased by the National Trust from the estate of the late George Richard Lawley Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall (1928 – 2001) with the assistance of the NHMF, Art Fund and donations from members and supporters in 2002 ['disposed of' ?]
Credit line
Tyntesfield, The Gibbs Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Signed and inscribed Houses of Parliament/H Dawson/1875 on the reverse .
Makers and roles
Henry Dawson (Hull 1811 - Chiswick 1878), publisher