Claude Monet painted several series of nearly 100 impressionist oil paintings of different views of the Thames River in the autumn of 1899 and the early months of 1900 and 1901 during stays in London. [1]

Between 1899 and 1901, Monet produced nearly a hundred views of the Thames River in London. He painted Waterloo Bridge and Charing Cross Bridge from his room in the Savoy Hotel and the Houses of Parliament from Saint Thomas's Hospital across the river.

During his London campaigns, Claude Monet painted the Houses of Parliament in the late afternoon and at sunset from a terrace at Saint Thomas’s Hospital. This viewpoint was close to that of the English artist J. M. W. Turner in his visionary paintings of the fire that had destroyed much of the old Parliament complex in 1834.

Jun 9, 2022 · Monet produced just a handful of canvases in the seven months he was in London — some say because he lacked the motivation to paint. Perhaps his best-known work from that time is The Thames below Westminster (now in the National Gallery).

Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament, during his stays in London between the years 1900-1905. The paintings have all the same size and viewpoint, Monet's window at St Thomas' Hospital overlooking the Thames.

His late London series produced around 95 canvases, grouped around three themes - Charing Cross Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and the Houses of Parliament. By the time of the Houses of Parliament series, Monet had abandoned his earlier practice of completing a painting on the spot in front of the motif.

His paintings of the Houses of Parliament in London and the Doge’s Palace in Venice elaborated upon the interest in atmospheric effects that shaped his artistic vision. Here, Monet mutes the architectural details of these two iconic buildings, focusing instead on rendering cascading sunlight and shimmering water in loose, overlapping strokes ...

Impressionist leader Claude Monet completed the Houses of Parliament as a series of paintings intended to study the monument at different times of day. Monet and his family were in London, seeking refuge from the Franco-Prussian war which had engulfed much of France.

This painting with subtle violet and purplish blue washes evokes Monet's passionate investigations into recreating the distinctive effects of fog in the English capital. Tinged with the memory...

May 24, 2024 · Claude Monet, the Impressionist famous for his renditions of French waterlilies and other beautiful scenes, will have his paintings of London's Thames displayed in that city for the first time. London, Houses of Parliament.