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Description: | A view up from the Vestibule into the Painted Hall in its days as the Naval Gallery, with the lower windows blocked up and paintings visible above a blue draped 'line' on the north wall and north side of the Upper Hall arch. A number of flags, including Unions and Royal Standards are visible. A large example of the latter with a Hanoverian white horse in the lower left quadrant hangs above the stairs between the columns in the foreground. The handrail of the stairs is also draped in a Union flag. There is a large crowd in the Hall where a 'fancy fair' of needlework and similar items is taking place in aid of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society on 1 June 1843, the anniversary of Lord Howe's action of 1794. It raised �1000 and is well described and also illustrated in the 'Illustrated London News' of 10 June (pp. 405-06), including a list of its patrons - many being titled ladies - and information on the Society, which was established in 1839 on the initiative of Sir Jahleel Brenton, Lieutenant-Governor of the Hospital. 'The Times' of 9 December 1843 (p.6) also covers the arraignment of Richard Cooper, a Lambeth blacksmith, who stole items from a box left in store in the Upper Hall after the event. These were a large wax figure of HRH the Prince of Wales with associated clothing etc., that had been submitted for sale at the fair ( value 30 guineas) the property of Sir George Seymour of Greenwich (then a Rear-Admiral and Lord of Admiralty). The work is inscribed, signed and dated by the artist in pencil, lower left.
Box Title: Greenwich Drawings G Size. Greenwich Views 1.
caption: The Painted Hall, Greenwich, 1 June 1843, open to the public as an art gallery | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich drawings Caf� Thomas Smith | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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