Bromley Hill, Kent

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Maker

(artist)
1772-1837

Title

Bromley Hill, Kent

Date of Production

1814

Medium

Black chalk and touches of white opaque watercolour with stumping on blue laid paper, laid down on a secondary support with a hand-drawn graphite border

Dimensions

Height: 29.2 cm
Width: 46.3 cm

Object Number

D.2026.MB.11

Mode of Acquisition

Michael Broughton, gift, 2026

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust). Michael Broughton bequest, 2026

Label Text

From the vantage point of Bromley Hill, this sweeping view looks south to the distant North Downs of Kent. Amelia Long used blue paper for many of her most ambitious landscapes, taking the paper’s tone as a midtone for the finely rendered clouds. The seated female figure at lower right may be a subtle self-portrait.

An aristocrat, Long was a prolific honorary exhibitor at the Royal Academy between 1807 and 1822. She exhibited views from Bromley Hill, the home she shared with her politician husband, in 1816 and 1817; this drawing may have been one of them.

Inscriptions

Inscription: Inscribed, recto, "A Long 1814 Bromley Hill" (lower left, graphite, by the artist); secondary support, recto, "Bromley Hill" (lower centre, graphite); "1/2 imp very narrow wash[?]" (lower right, graphite); verso, "Mrs Strang to show link [?difficult to decipher] 06536 566" (lower right, graphite). Historic Mount (now removed), inner recto: lower right, graphite: "STR 566"; verso: all lower right, graphite: "Broughton 027186"; "Inscribed, recto."; "K06536" (circled).

Provenance

Iolo Williams (1890-1962); Judy Egerton (1928-2023); Abbott & Holder, London, where acquired by Michael Broughton (1944-2026); Michael Broughton bequest, 2026

Exhibition History

A View of One's Own, Landscapes by British Women Artists, 1760-1860, Courtauld Gallery, London, 28/01/2026-20/05/2026

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