Watercolour, pen and ink on paper
Luke Clint, Robert C. Andrews, and John Henderson Grieve
By the early nineteenth century, London’s theatres employed highly skilled painters to create elaborate scenery and scenic effects for productions. This book contains forty-five ink and watercolour sketches by several scene painters – Luke Clint, Robert C. Andrews, and John Henderson Grieve. It was in the collection of the Belgian artist Louis Haghe, who may have used it to inspire his own work.
Haghe was commissioned by Queen Victoria to create watercolours of Charles Kean’s 1858 Windsor performance of Macbeth for her Theatrical Album. Two examples are shown in this exhibition.
Image Courtesy of the Garrick Club, London
