View of Leeds from Beeston Hill
Nathan Theodore Fielding
- Art Funded
- 1992
- Dimensions
- 70 x 130 cm
- Art Fund grant
- £6,750 (Total: £27,000)
- Vendor
- Lane Fine Art
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.
Provenance
Not established but probably a Leeds cloth merchant family.
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