View of Leeds from Beeston Hill

Nathan Theodore Fielding (1747 - circa 1814)

Leeds City Museum

1798 - 1800

Leeds was the world centre of the woollen trade when this panoramic view of the city and its environs was painted. It provides a record of Leeds in the late 1790s, at an early stage in its development from rural to manufacturing centre, and just before its Georgian architecture was overwhelmed by massive rebuilding and industrial expansion in the early nineteenth century.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 70 x 130 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £6750 ( Total: £27,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1992
• Vendor: Lane Fine Art

Provenance

Not established but probably a Leeds cloth merchant family.

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