David Roberts, R.A.

Painted for Charles Thomas Lucas (1820–1895), Sister House, Clapham and later Warnham Court, Sussex;

John James Moubray (1857–1928), Naemoor, Aberdeenshire and Killerby Hall, Yorkshire;

By whose estate sold, London, Christie’s, 10 May 1929, lot 45, to Leggatt, for 120 guineas;

From whom almost certainly acquired by William Eric Ward, 3rd Earl of Dudley (1894–1969);

Thence by descent to the present owner. 

Listed in the artist’s record books under works completed in 1861 as ‘The Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey’;

J. Ballantine, The Life of David Roberts, R.A., Edinburgh 1866, p. 253, no. 256, sketch from the record books, reproduced pp. 208–9;

M. Bills, ‘David Roberts The Houses of Parliament from Millbank and the London Series’, in Apollo, August 2003, pp. 3–9.

Probably, London, South Kensington Museum, International Exhibition, 1871, no. 280.