by walklondonadming | Nov 16, 2020 | virtual tours
Image courtesy of Wikiart The first in a series of four tours that follows in the footsteps of three French artists, when they came to London between 1870 and 1901, creating many of the seminal works that came to define the movement known as Impressionism. These tours...
by walklondonadming | Nov 16, 2020 | virtual tours
Image courtesy of Wikiart The second tour follows in the footsteps of Camille Pissarro who lived in Norwood, a southeast suburb of London between 1870 and 1871, when the landscape was dominated by the engineering marvel of the Crystal Palace. Pissarro captured the...
by walklondonadming | Nov 16, 2020 | virtual tours
Image courtesy of Wikiart The third in our series of tours concentrates on Alfred Sisley, perhaps the least known of the Impressionists and yet the only one who stayed loyal to the aesthetic qualities of Impressionism for his whole career. In the summer of 1874 Sisley...
by walklondonadming | Nov 16, 2020 | virtual tours
Image courtesy of Wikiart Our final tour in this series, again looks at all three of the artists who at other various times returned to London and other parts of the UK creating many other wonderful views that we can still recognise today. We begin in 1871 when Monet...
by walklondonadming | Oct 7, 2020 | Blog, virtual tours
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Off with his/her head! – London’s executions. The last public beheading in London took place on Tower Hill in 1747. This tradition dates back to 1381 when Simon of Sudbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was hacked to death by...
