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View from the Terrace of York Buildings, London, with Saint Paul cathedral in the distance

Maker

(artist)
1728-1784

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1770

Medium

graphite, grey wash, touches of watercolour on laid paper, with remnants of a graphite framing line

Dimensions

Height: 36 cm
Width: 55.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.44

Mode of Acquisition

William Wycliffe Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Solicitor to Covent Garden Theatre, Thomas Theodosius Forrest was also a successful amateur artist. He sketched in the evenings with brothers Paul and Thomas Sandby at their Poulteney Street lodgings and was aware of Canaletto’s Thames panoramas of the late 1740s and early 1750s. Paul Sandby’s influence is evident in the groups of figures, strategically placed to focus the eye on St Paul’s Cathedral.

Notes

The influence of Paul and Thomas Sandby is evident in Forrest’s use of watercolour, particularly in washes of colour with undefined borders.

Provenance

Malcolm Laing; Frank T. Sabin (London) by June 1953; Mr and Mrs William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum and Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005; Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 18/07/2005-23/10/2005; Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, 16/11/2005-12/02/2006

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 11/05/1973-02/06/1973 ...More

Royal Academy of Arts Bicentenary Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 14/12/1968-02/03/1969

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe
Spooner, Harrogate, 1968

The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy, London, 1770 ...Less

Literature

Hardie, Martin, English watercolours of the 18th century
pl. 6

Artwork, 1931; VII, 28
p. 242

William, Iolo A., Early English Watercolours, London: The Connoisseur, 1952
p. 24 ...More

Sabin, Frank T., Advertisement in Apollo, June 1953
p. xxxv

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe Spooner, Harrogate, 1968
cat. no. 7

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1973
cat. no. 23

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 11
ill. on p. 95 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: a cross above "IHS / IVILLEDARY".

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: none.

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