FDA-D.1600-2018
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Object number
FDA-D.1600-2018
Object type
Identification
Title
Eton College from Windsor
Title Type
assigned by artist
Comments
Amelia Long, Lady Farnborough was born in London; the daughter of art collector Sir Abraham Hume. She married Treasury Official Charles Long in 1793. Her husband later became Paymaster-General and, in 1826, was raised to the peerage as Baron Farnborough. The couple owned an impressive art collection, including neo-classical sculpture, Dutch and Flemish paintings and British and Old Master landscapes.
Amelia was acquainted with the art collector and patron Dr Thomas Monro and it was probably through Monro that she met Thomas Girtin, from whom she took drawings lessons in c.1796. She was also close to another member of Monro’s circle, portraitist Henry Edridge and his influence is evident in her work.
After visits to France and Holland between 1815 and 1819, Amelia confined her travels and her watercolour subjects to the south of England. She and her husband settled at Bromley Hill Place (now the Bromley Court Hotel), an Italian style house in Kent, in 1801. The house became a meeting place for artists and royalty, and Amelia both painted watercolours and practised her other main interest, horticulture, there.
Although an amateur artist, Amelia is recognised as having made ‘a vital contribution to early English watercolour painting’ and she exhibited her work at the Royal Academy and the British Institution in London.
The Eton College Collections also include a pencil study of 'A Wooded Path, Bromley Hill' and a large watercolour view of 'Clewer from Windsor Castle' by Lady Farnborough.
Amelia was acquainted with the art collector and patron Dr Thomas Monro and it was probably through Monro that she met Thomas Girtin, from whom she took drawings lessons in c.1796. She was also close to another member of Monro’s circle, portraitist Henry Edridge and his influence is evident in her work.
After visits to France and Holland between 1815 and 1819, Amelia confined her travels and her watercolour subjects to the south of England. She and her husband settled at Bromley Hill Place (now the Bromley Court Hotel), an Italian style house in Kent, in 1801. The house became a meeting place for artists and royalty, and Amelia both painted watercolours and practised her other main interest, horticulture, there.
Although an amateur artist, Amelia is recognised as having made ‘a vital contribution to early English watercolour painting’ and she exhibited her work at the Royal Academy and the British Institution in London.
The Eton College Collections also include a pencil study of 'A Wooded Path, Bromley Hill' and a large watercolour view of 'Clewer from Windsor Castle' by Lady Farnborough.
Description
Dimensions
height: 200mm
width: 375mm
height (frame): 435mm
width (frame): 585mm
width: 375mm
height (frame): 435mm
width (frame): 585mm
Materials & techniques note
Pencil on paper
Physical description
Black and gilt frame
Production
Person
Date
1806
