A View of Part of Blackfriars Bridge, of the Tower and of the Manufacture for Cartridge Balls, taken from the Terrace over Somerset House / Vue d’une partie du Pont de Blackfriars, de la Tour & de la Manufacture de Baues a Cartouche prise de la Terrasse aud dessus de Somerset House

Location

Country: Turkey
City: Ankara
Place: British Embassy

Louis Bélanger travelled extensively through Europe and is best known for works he produced on the continent and in England. He was based in London for a time and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1790 and 1797, showing just three works there in total. In the published listing of ‘Royal Academy Contributors and their Works’ he is described as ‘Painter to the Duke of Orleans’ and in 1790 his address is given as No. 2, Old Bond Street. By 1797 he had moved, although his new address is given simply as Knightsbridge. He was appointed painter to the Swedish court in Stockholm in 1798, where he remained until his death in 1816. Swedish painter Carl Johan Fahlcrantz (1774-1861) was his pupil.

Places

England, London

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, townscape/cityscape, tree, smoke, river bank, river, hill, bridge (urban), foundry (as Subject), factory, house, tower, barge/canal boat

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, coloured aquatint

Artist

Louis Bélanger (1756 - 1816)
Laurent Guyot (1756 - 1806)

Title

A View of Part of Blackfriars Bridge, of the Tower and of the Manufacture for Cartridge Balls, taken from the Terrace over Somerset House / Vue d’une partie du Pont de Blackfriars, de la Tour & de la Manufacture de Baues a Cartouche prise de la Terrasse aud dessus de Somerset House

Date

published June 1792

Medium

Coloured aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, July 1973

GAC number

10539