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LOUIS BELANGER Paris 1756-1816 Stockholm Putney Bridge, London Signerad och daterad Louis Bélanger 1796. Akvarell och täckvitt på papper fäst på pannå, 21 x 28 cm. Ornamenterad och förgylld originalram och originalpasspartout i glas med svarta och förgyllda ramlinjer. Signed and dated. Pencil, pen and black ink, watercolour, fully laid down on the original tablet Original gilt and ornamented frame; original black and gilt glass mount, original wood backing PROVENANCE Professor Sir Albert Edward Richardson (1880-1964), P.R.A. (President of the Royal Academy 1954-1956), London . Professor Sir Albert Edward Richardson (1880-1964) (Richardson was a leading English architect, teacher and writer about architecture during the first half of the 20th century. He was Professor of Architecture at University College London, a President of the Royal Academy (1954-56), editor of Architects' Journal and founder of the Georgian Group. He was strongly influenced by nostalgia for the craftsmanship of the late Georgian era and the pared-down Neoclassicism of Sir John Soane in particular, but he recognised that his classical ideals needed to be developed to meet the challenges of Modernism. The result was a synthesis of traditional and modern approaches which was adapted and applied to industrial and commercial buildings, churches and houses. His deep knowledge of and sympathy towards Georgian design also helped him in numerous post-war commissions to restore bomb-damaged Georgian buildings. Ironically, several of his designs - most notably, Bracken House in the City of London, the first post-war London building to be listed and protected from redevelopment - are now regarded as classic milestones of 20th century design. From 1919 until his death in 1964, Richardson lived at Avenue House, 20 Church Street, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, an 18th-century townhouse in which he initially refused to install electricity, believing that his home needed to reflect Georgian standards of living if he was truly to understand their way of life, though he was later convinced to change his mind by his wife.) . Louis Belanger arrived in London from Paris in 1790 where he remained for eight years. He exhibited twice at the Royal academy (1790 and 1797). In 1798, via Russia and Finland, he arrived in Sweden where he remained for the rest of his life. He was at once elected the Majesty´s premier painter and a member of the Royal Academy. His work in Sweden came to have a decisive influence on the development of the Swedish school of landscape painting of the first quarter of the nineteenth century.. . Putney Bridge links Putney on the south side of the River Thames in west London with Fulham to the north. It is said that in 1720 Sir Robert Walpole was returning from seeing George I at Kingston and being in a hurry to get to the House of Commons rode together with his servant to Putney to take the ferry across to Fulham. The ferry boat was on the opposite side, however and the waterman, who was drinking in the Swan, ignored the calls of Sir Robert and his servant and they were obliged to take another route. Walpole vowed that a bridge would replace the ferry. He gained support from the Prince of Wales who was often inconvenienced by the ferry when returning from hunting in Richmond Park. Construction of a bridge was first sanctioned by an Act of Parliament in 1726. Built by local master carpenter Thomas Phillips to a design by architect Sir Jacob Acworth, the first bridge was opened in November 1729, to become the only bridge between London Bridge and Kingston Bridge at the time. A toll bridge, it featured tollbooths at either end of the timber-built structure. In October 1795, Mary Wollstonecraft allegedly planned to commit suicide by jumping from the bridge, because she had returned from a trip to Sweden to discover that her lover was involved with an actress from London. . The church sited beside the southern approach to Putney Bridge next to the river Thames is St.