- nection with Hollar. James II had various landscapes by him, and
Samuel Pepys, who calls him "the great landscape painter," mentions seeing him in 1668-69 and arranging for views of Whitehall, Hampton Court, Greenwich, and Windsor, to adorn his dining-room panels. Danckerts, who was a Roman Catholic, is said to have left England during the Popish Plot and to have died at Amsterdam soon afterwards. From what precedes we may be sure that the picture was painted between 1670 and about 1677, perhaps not much after the earlier date. By Hendrick Danckerts (c. 1630-1678). Lent by the Earl of Berkeley.
97a SEARLE'S BOAT-HOUSE, STANGATE, LAMBETH. Watercolour. 14 by 9-3/4 in. The famous boat builders, of Eton and Oxford, had an establishment on the Surrey side, much frequented by Westminster school-*boys before the formation of the Embankment and the removal of St. Thomas's Hospital from High Street, Southwark, to Stangate. It will be seen that the boat-house was just above Westminster Bridge; it was afterwards moved to a point higher up the river. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
97b BUILDINGS ADJOINING LAMBETH CHURCH. Watercolour. 10 by 6-1/4 in. Shows picturesque but tumbledown buildings formerly along the riverside at Lambeth. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
98a ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, SOUTHWARK.
Watercolour. 9-3/4 by 7 in.
Originally the church of the Priory of St. Mary Overy, after the Reformation St. Saviour's parish church, and now Southwark Cathedral. View of the old nave from the west end, shortly before it was replaced by an unsightly nave in 1838-9. This also has disappeared, being rebuilt from the designs of the late Sir Arthur Blomfield. The choir and tower were "restored " 1822-5, by George Gwilt.
By F. Nash (1782-1856).
Lent by Sir E. Coates.
