Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, A.R.A. (1889-1946)

Hungerford Railway Bridge

Details

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, A.R.A. (1889-1946)
Hungerford Railway Bridge
signed 'C.R.W.Nevinson' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1938
There is an unfinished portrait of a lady on the reverse

Provenance

with Leicester Galleries, London.
with Arthur Tooth, London.
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, 17 July 1963, lot 50, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

M. Galinou and J. Hayes, London in Paint: Oil Paintings in the Collection at the Museum of London, London, 1996, p. 427, identified as Waterloo Bridge.

Exhibited

London, Christie's, The New Patrons: Twentieth Century Art from Corporate Collections, January 1992, no. 156.

Lot Essay

Hungerford Railway Bridge was built to carry the South Eastern Railway across the Thames to its new West End terminus at Charing Cross. It was completed in 1864 to the designs of Sir John Hawkshaw and replaced Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Hungerford Suspension Bridge of 1841-5. The Shot Tower, seen on the left, was built in 1826 and was pulled down in 1962.

A similar composition by the same artist, The Temporary Waterloo Bridge, 1938 is in the collection of the Museum of London. It looks towards the Temporary Waterloo Bridge from a point just beyond Hungerford Bridge. (see M. Galinou and J. Hayes, London in Paint: Oil Paintings in the Collection at the Museum of London, London, 1996, p. 427, no. 184).

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