Location

Country: Holy See
City: Vatican City
Place: British Embassy

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

Italy, Vatican City, St. Peter's Basilica, Rome: Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome: Ponte Sant'Angelo, Rome

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, genre, townscape/cityscape, tree, river bank, river, hill, Italian, man, woman, flag (as Subject), bridge (urban), house, fortification, church, dome

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

William Marlow (1740 - 1813)

Title

View of St Peter’s with Castel S. Angelo, Rome

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 85.00 cm, width: 137.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Christie's, 11 March 1949

Inscription

bcl: W Marlow

Provenance

Collection of William Nevill of Stoke Newington; by descent to Mrs B. C. Bamber; by whom sold through Christie’s, London, on 11 March 1949 (Lot 125); from which sale purchased by Richard Walker on behalf of the Ministry of Works

GAC number

729