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About the book >.>.> This beautiful and scholarly book provides a colourful insight into this ever-changing city. London in Paint is a catalogue of the Museum of London’s unrivalled collection of over two hundred oil paintings of life in the capital. It surveys London’s past as seen through the eyes of resident and visiting painters over the past three and a half centuries. London in Paint offers a visual record of the evolution of the capital’s architecture and topography. London from Southwark the earliest surviving oil painting with London as its sole subject gives a rare glimpse of the city before the devastation of the Great Fire of 1666. Works by Samuel Scott Canaletto and William Marlow and a host of Victorian painters including Gustave Dor? John O’Connor and George Elgar Hicks show the increasing bustle of the expanding city. The twentieth-century contributions range from the impressionistic work of the Camden Town Group through paintings recording the city’s wartime damage to today’s generation of artists who use urban images to explore the meaning of contemporary society. Works by Arturo Di Stefano Jock McFadyen David Hepher and Oliver Bevan are among the many recent paintings acquired by the Museum of London. London in Paint is arranged chronologically from pre-1666 to the present day and by theme: the river streets and buildings of London and the social scene. These thematic groups of paintings are introduced by a series of essays that place the works in their historic and artistic contexts. (OS)