Painters’ houses

Painters’ houses
Canaletto 1697-1768
Hogarth 1697-1764

Painters’ houses


Canaletto’s studio: [click on the picture to enlarge it]

The Leicester Fields area was inhabited by painters and doctors.

Hogarth lived in Leicester Fields (nowadays Leicester Square) at n°30 (South East angle) from 1733 till his death in 1764 ; he had a house in Chiswick.

Wilson lived in the Covent Garden area from 1758.

Gainsborough, when he left Bath in 1774, set up in a wing of Schomberg House in Pall Mall.

Canaletto, when he stayed in London between 1746 and 1755, lived at 16 Silver Street (the continuation of Beak Street, the latter name being now given to both streets and his house being now n° 41).

Scott lived at 2 Henrietta Street, in the Covent Garden area, from 1747 to 1758.

Marlow lived in Great Newport Street (close to Leicester Fields) from 1760 ; he retired to Twickenham from 1788.


Scott’s house: [click on the picture to enlarge it]

Reynolds lived in Leicester Fields at n°47 (West side) from 1760 till his death in 1792.

Paul Sandby lived in Bayswater, to the North of Hyde Park , from 1772 till his death.

Malton lived in Poland Street (Soho).

Girtin, who was born in Southwark, lived near Covent Garden at the end of the 18^the century (Henrietta Street then Long Acre in 1799), then in Islington further North from 1800.