A cityscape with elegant figures, workers and builders

This picture was probably painted not long after van Worrell came to London for the first time. He made Dutch landscapes for the English market and painted views of south west London, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in the 1820s and ‘30s. A number of his works are in the Royal Collection. The figures dressed in red in the foreground here could well be prisoners and one of the surrounding buildings perhaps a prison in London.