The Red House in Battersea

Location

Country: Chile
City: Santiago
Place: British Embassy

This peaceful scene on the River Thames, painted in subdued colours, looks across the water to the site now occupied by Battersea Park. Various vessels are sailed or rowed past a large tavern, smaller houses or storage buildings, and two windmills on the water’s edge.

A work in the Museum of London, dated c.1785-90, is clearly painted by the same hand and shows 'The Thames at Millbank'. However, the Museum of London painting is currently attributed to ‘British School’.

Places

England, River Thames, London, Battersea

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, landscape C18th, tree, river bank, river, hill, house, windmill, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Thomas Priest

Title

The Red House in Battersea

Date

c1800

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 75.70 cm, width: 127.30 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Rafael Valls, October 1977

Inscription

none

Provenance

With Spink & Sons by c.1960; with Gunsberg & Levey, New York, by 1969; with Roy Miles; from whom purchased by Rafael Valls Ltd., London, on 21 July 1977; from whom purchased by the Department of the Environment in October 1977 as 'The Notorious Red House in Battersea'

GAC number

13463