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A view from the East Greenwich waterfront looking towards the Hospital, apparently on a warm summer evening. Two ceremonial – probably royal – barges are at the Hospital water stair with a huge assemblage of people in the Grand Square, both suggesting that the picture records the end of a royal visit to the Hospital, probably by the 'Sailor King' King William IV (reigned 1830–1837) who was a popular and fairly frequent visitor during the Governorships of his old friend Sir Richard Keats and (from 1834) Keats's successor Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy. It may be the King and Queen Adelaide's departure on the evening of 1 August 1835, when they made a day visit to mark the anniversary of the Battle of the Nile in 1798. Most of Holland's on-the-spot work at Greenwich was done in the 1830s, but he later returned to it, either as favourite subject or because commissioned to.
Title
Greenwich Hospital from the East
Date
1854
Medium
oil on board
Measurements
H 30.8 x W 46.1 cm
Accession number
BHC1830
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
J H 54
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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