1816
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
View of the King's Great Drawing Room is a 1816 by William Kent, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print is titled View of the King's Great Drawing Room. It was created by William Kent in 1816. The print is part of a larger project, The history of the royal residences, which aimed to document the interior and exterior views of royal palaces. This project was produced by William Henry Pyne between 1816 and 1819 and featured illustrations by well-known watercolour artists. To learn more about the style and context of this print, look up the movement: Romanticism.
The aquatint depicts the King’s Great Drawing Room at Kensington Palace, a space remodeled in the 1720s under King George I and decorated by William Kent. The room’s ceiling features a central oval oil painting on canvas by Kent, illustrating a mythological scene of Jupiter appearing to Semele, executed without illusionistic perspective. A full-scale preparatory drawing for the composition was discovered on the plaster beneath the canvas during conservation work in 1996. The image is one of a series of interior views commissioned by William Henry Pyne for his multi-volume survey of royal…
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William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century. He began his career as a painter, and became Principal Painter in Ordinary…
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