A View of Dover Signed and dated 1832
Oil on panel | 50.0 x 71.1 x 1.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 405276
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In 1831 Chambers was invited to Windsor to show Queen Adelaide some sketches, from which she chose two to be worked up into paintings - this one and its pair, 'View of Greenwich' (RCIN 405275). The Queen was delighted with both paintings when she received them on 3 July 1832 and paid Chambers 30 guineas for each. Both compositions have a device (employed by Turner and characteristic of the times) whereby an important historical monument and significant national emblem - Greenwich Naval Hospital and Dover Castle - is seen behind scenes of humble domestic life and ordinary toil. This is a means of making a picturesque composition but also suggests that there is some relationship between the nation's prestige and the lot of its ordinary subjects.
Provenance
Painted for Queen Adelaide; bequeathed by her to Queen Victoria in 1849
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Medium and techniques
Oil on panel
Measurements
50.0 x 71.1 x 1.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
88.6 x 108.9 x 8.5 cm (frame, external)