Cheyne Walk, afternoon

Cheyne Walk in Chelsea was a popular area for artists from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. The house depicted in the middle distance with large gate piers was the former home of the Pre-Raphaelite, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Its popularity with artists continued well into the twentieth century with two pivotal leaders of British Impressionism, Phillip Wilson Steer and James Abbot McNeil Whistler living nearby.