ANON (Eighteenth-Century) – Grosvenor House, Walthamstow.

Grosvenor House, Walthamstow. Pencil, watercolour and gouache. c.1790. The garden side of the house built by Tristram Conyers c.1600 and belonging to Thomas Grosvenor (1764-1851) [Field Marshall from 1846] by the late eighteenth century. This watercolour was probably commissioned to record the house and garden after the works Grosvenor completed in 1789 and which including re-fronting the building in white Suffolk brick. The house was demolished c.1950 after a fire. 10"x17" inches.