The Monument, Fish St Hill from Gracechurch Street

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Landscapist William Marlow was born in London or Southwark. He trained in the studio of marine painter Samuel Scott in Covent Garden (1756-61) and is also thought to have studied at the St Martin’s Lane Academy. Marlow spent his early career travelling around England in search of subjects; painting English country houses and the areas around Twickenham, Richmond, and the lower banks of the Thames. On the advice of the Duchess of Northumberland he travelled to France and Italy (1765-66). He exhibited at the Society of Artists, becoming Vice-President in 1778, and at the Royal Academy. Marlow lived for a time in Leicester Fields (now Leicester Square). His one pupil was John Curtis. In c.1785 he retired to Twickenham, where he died aged 72.

Places

England, London, Monument to the Great Fire, City of London, Fish Street Hill, Church of St. Magnus the Martyr

Subjects

carriage, cart, wagon, topography, genre, townscape/cityscape, horse, smoke, boy, man, woman, basket, coat of arms, soldier, shop-front, street, monument, pavement, shop, house, church, bell tower, window, chimney, tower

Materials & Techniques

engraving

Artist

William Marlow (1740 - 1813)
Thomas Morris

Title

The Monument, Fish St Hill from Gracechurch Street

Date

published 4 November 1795

Medium

Engraving

Acquisition

Purchased November 1946

GAC number

256