Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
Unknown artist, Britain
Chelsea Hospital
Presented by the Hon. Mrs Phillimore 1934
arcade
architecture
Baroque
boat, barge
boat, rowing
boat, sailing
Chelsea, Royal Hospital
England
features
hospital
periods and styles
places
public and municipal
river
River Thames
society
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
UK countries and regions
UK London
UK natural features
water: inland
waterfront
painting oil paint canvas
Chelsea Hospital
support: 337 × 898 mm
Presented by the Hon. Mrs Phillimore 1934
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/unknown-artist-britain-chelsea-hospital-n04765" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04765</span></a> <b>View of Chelsea College with Ranelagh House and the Rotunda</b>
after 1751</p>
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<p>Oil on canvas 337×898 (13 1/4×35 3/8)
<br/>Presented by the Hon. Mrs Phillimore to the National Gallery 1934; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1948
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<br/>PROVENANCE ...; Hon. Mrs Phillimore by 1934
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<br/>Pair to <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/unknown-artist-britain-greenwich-hospital-n04764" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04764</span></a>. This view of Chelsea College (now called The Royal Hospital, Chelsea) reveals direct knowledge of at least part of Canaletto's ‘View of Chelsea College with Ranelagh House and the Rotunda’, which at some stage was divided into two parts, and was apparently not engraved. Canaletto's picture is discussed and the original composition illustrated by J.G. Links in his revised edition of W.G. Constable, <i>Canaletto</i>, 1976, I, pp.407–8, no.413, II, pl.75, and by James L. Howgego, ‘A Recent Canaletto Discovery’, <i>Guildhall Miscellany</i>, VII, 1956, pp.21–9, pl.5.
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<br/>Canaletto exhibited his picture to the public at his lodgings in Golden Square for fifteen days from 31 July 1751 (Links, 1, p.408). Links suggests (p.407) that its division into two parts ‘was made fairly soon after the picture was painted’ (and certainly by 1802, when the right-hand part was sold independently); and he suggests (in correspondence) that the Tate Gallery picture ‘was painted by someone who had seen the right side of Canaletto's view and knew of the existence of the left although he had not seen it’.</p>
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Elizabeth Einberg and Judy Egerton, <i>The Age of Hogarth: British Painters Born 1675-1709</i>, Tate Gallery Collections, II, London 1988
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2004-07-20T00:00:00
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arcade architecture Baroque boat, barge boat, rowing boat, sailing Chelsea, Royal Hospital England features hospital periods and styles places public and municipal river River Thames society townscapes / man-made features transport: water UK countries and regions UK London UK natural features waterfront water: inland