King’s College Chapel from the Gibbs Building, Cambridge
Charles Walter Radclyffe (Birmingham 1817 - London 1903)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1837 - 1903
Materials
Oil on canvas stuck to panel
Measurements
362 x 186 mm (14 1/4 x 11 1/4 in)
Place of origin
Cambridge
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515833
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, King’s College Chapel from the Gibbs Building, Cambridge by Charles Walter Radclyffe (Birmingham 1817 - London 1903), signed, bottom left. King’s College Chapel seen on the left from an arch of the Fellows’ Building by Gibbs; green lawn, two trees, blue sky with clouds. King’s College Chapel, (The King’s College of Our Lady and St Nicholas) is a late perpendicular building of 1446-1515 begun by Henry VI and continued by successive sovereigns to Henry VIII. The Fellows’ Building is dated 1724 and is by the Scottish architect James Gibbs (1682-1754).
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Signed, bottom left: C.W.Radclyffe
Makers and roles
Charles Walter Radclyffe (Birmingham 1817 - London 1903), artist