View of Windsor Castle, with the River Thames and Figures in the foreground
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
890 x 1200 mm
Place of origin
Windsor Castle
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515835
Caption
Lord Fairhaven had known Windsor since 1917, when his father bought Park Close, a house on the edge of Windsor Great Park. From 1916, during the First World War, when not at the front he was stationed at the Combermere barracks in Windsor with his regiment, the 1st Life Guards. He started collecting views of the castle as mementoes, but gradually became more systematic. By his death, he had assembled over 100 oil paintings, 150 watercolours and drawings and 500 prints, which together comprise the largest such survey outside the Royal Collection. They record the development over four centuries of the largest inhabited castle in the world, which has been a royal residence since the time of William the Conqueror. The 12th-century Round Tower dominates the view, the earliest of which dates from the beginning of the 17th century.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, View of Windsor Castle, with the River Thames and Figures in the Foreground, British (English) School, 18th century. View of Windsor Castle on a steep hill occupying almost the whole skyline, with St George’s Chapel on the right, in the foreground is the River Thames, tree-lined with a row of houses hugging the shoreline, a sailing boat on the river on the left, in the foreground on the embankment two men with a dog in the centre, and on the left, two figures with a small rowing boat, on the right, the painting is framed with a large tree, blue sky with clouds, fading to pink on the skyline on the right.
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)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist
References
Anglesey Abbey, 1990-1992 [The National Trust; Robin Fedden] 1972, revised 1990, reprinted 1992., p.26: Anglesey Abbey, 2006 [The National Trust] 2002, revised 2006, p.26: