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1803 In Art
Events in the year 1803 in Art. Events *Summer – The Stafford Gallery at Bridgewater House, Westminster#Art collections, Cleveland House, London, the private art collection of the George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, Marquess of Stafford's family (including many paintings from the Orleans Collection), is first opened to the public (by invitation). Works *James Barry (painter), James Barry – '':File:Selfportrait James Barry 1803.jpg, Self-portrait as Timanthes'' *Louis-Léopold Boilly **'':File:Louis-Léopold Boilly 002.jpg, The Arrival of the Diligence (stagecoach) in the Courtyard of the Messageries'' **'':File:Paris art deco boilly houdon.jpg, Jean-Antoine Houdon modeling the bust of Laplace in his atelier'' (c.1803-04) *Adam Buck – '':File:Mary Anne Clarke (née Thompson).jpg, Mary Anne Clarke'' *John Sell Cotman – watercolours **''Bedlam Furnace Near Irongate [sic.], Shropshire'' **'':File:Cotman, Ruins of Rievaulx Abbey.jpg, Ruins of Rievaulx Abbey'' *Philip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridgewater House, Westminster
Bridgewater House is a townhouse located at 14 Cleveland Row in the St James's area of London, England. It is a Grade I listed building. History The earliest known house on the site was Berkshire House, built in about 1626–27 for Thomas Howard, second son of the Earl of Suffolk and Master of the Horse to Charles I of England when he was Prince of Wales. Howard was later created Earl of Berkshire. After being occupied by Parliamentarian troops in the English Civil War, used for the Portuguese Embassy, and lived in by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, the house was lived in by Charles II's mistress Barbara Villiers, who was made Duchess of Cleveland in 1670, following which the house was known as Cleveland House. She refaced the old house and added new wings. After being owned for some years by a speculator, the house was sold in 1700 to John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, after which it passed by inheritance until 1948. Cleveland House was re-designed in the Palazzo st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |