Title

Marlborough House, Pall Mall, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Marlborough House, Pall Mall, [London], 1850. Paintings put on public display in Marlborough House. 'The change with respect to these pictures is decidedly for the worse. In the [National Gallery] they could, at least, be seen; at Marlborough House an antique gloom is thrown over them by the shadows from the deep windows, not at all favourable to the development of their merits of colour. The whole collection occupies the suite of rooms on the ground-floor. The two first rooms are devoted to the National Gallery excerpts, and the rest to the Vernon Collection...The history of the mansion is curious: Marlborough House was built in 1709-10, by Sir Christopher Wren, for John Churchill, the great Duke of Marlborough, on ground leased by Queen Ann to the Duchess...Wren was employed, to vex Vanbrugh'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM22A33_469

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NA

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Rights managed

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54,4Mb (3,8Mb) / 16,5in x 12,8in / 4960 x 3830 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors building buildings London England house houses architecture arts painting paintings dark art British darkness Westminster location Victorian collection century gallery Britain newspapers press facade exhibition B&W engraved engraving art gallery pall mall 19th century black & white black and white B W National Gallery of Art 18th century Eighteenth Century façade nineteenth century City of Westminster The Print Collector Illustrated London News Marlborough House TGN ILN outside street building exterior newspaper Unknown Sir Christopher Wren Wren Christopher Wren Christopher Robert Vernon art centre Sir Christopher 19th-century Vernon Collection Robert Vernon