London: Northumberland House

作品描述

Northumberland House is a 1752 landscape painting by the Italian artist Canaletto. Painted during his nine-year stay in Britain he depicts Northumberland House on the Strand by Charing Cross in London close to the location of the later Trafalgar Square. Canaletto was commissioned by the Westminster property's owner Sir Hugh Smithson, then 2nd Earl of Northumberland. Smithson was his most important patron during his time in England. The work shows Northumberland House at the middle of the eighteenth century. On the right of the painting is Hubert Le Sueur's Equestrian statue of Charles I