Henry William Burgess' Wimpole St Interior

We love (and covet) this elegant Wimpole Street interior by Henry William Burgess (c.1792–1839), landscape painter to William IV and the teacher of John Leech and Thackeray.

In the late 1820s and early 1830s Burgess gave drawing lessons to the wife and children of William Kerr, the 6th Marquess of Lothian. This charming image shows the front drawing room of their home at Wimpole Street in Marylebone. His daughter, Lady Elizabeth (1807–1871), is shown in the corner, and his son, Lord Frederick (1818–1896), referred to as Freddy, is shown drawing at the table.