The Fire of London

Image credit: National Trust for Scotland, Haddo House

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While previously attributed to Daniel van Heil (1604–1664) he died two years before the event. The British Museum has a similar watercolour (1880,1113.1170) and print (1880,113.1169) copied after 1780 by Peter Mazell from a panoramic oil painting that was in the Painter-Stainers Company until destroyed in WWII. George Scharf, extensively discusses the Society of Antiquaries' oil copy also from the Painter-Stainers' original, but of conventional format, in his Antiquaries' catalogue of 1865. He reports the Painter-Stainers' oil as 1ft 11ins x 6ft 4ins and inventoried in 1724 as by an artist called 'Waggoner' (so possibly of Dutch origin as Waghenaer) but not otherwise known. The Mazell print and watercolour, and the Antiquaries copy, after overpaint was removed, show the Moon in the clouds at right (stained red in the Mazell drawing).

National Trust for Scotland, Haddo House

Ellon

Title

The Fire of London

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 73.7 x W 79.8 cm

Accession number

79.4

Acquisition method

transferred

Work type

Painting

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