The Crown Inn

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

This picturesque settlement, which includes an inn, a watermill and ruins covered in vegetation is probably an idealised view of an imagined settlement by artist Nicholas Thomas Dall.

Nicholas Thomas Dall was of Scandinavian origin, but little is known of his early life. He may have studied in Bologna in the 1740s as he was based there when commissioned by Thomas Anson (c.1695-1773) to produce capriccios for Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire. Dall later travelled to England and was in London by late 1756. In the following year he was employed as a scene painter at Covent Garden, a post he retained until his death. However, he also continued to practice as a decorative painter, producing works for Harewood House, Yorkshire, and Moor Park, Hertfordshire. He exhibited at the Society of British Artists and the Royal Academy, which he was elected an associate member of in 1771. Dall died at home in Great Newport Street, London.

Places

Subjects

trough, wagon, landscape C18th, genre, horse, river, man, crown, road, signage, inn, cottage, mill

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting, oval

Artist

Nicholas Thomas Dall ( - 1776)

Title

The Crown Inn

Date

1770

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 100.00 cm, width: 145.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Pawsey & Payne, September 1964

Inscription

signed verso

Provenance

With Pawsey & Payne; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in September 1964

GAC number

6671