View of Fish Street Hill from Gracechurch Street, showing the Monument and the Church of St. Magnus London Bridge

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for International Trade, Old Admiralty Building

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, City of London

Subjects

carriage, wagon, topography, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, horse, man, woman, 18th century costume, dress, basket, shop-front, street, monument, pavement, shop, house, church, cobbles, window, awning, tower

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

William Marlow (1740 - 1813)
Thomas Morris

Title

View of Fish Street Hill from Gracechurch Street, showing the Monument and the Church of St. Magnus London Bridge

Date

published 4 November 1795

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, July 1962

GAC number

5854