Laura Gascoigne

Fog, tea and full English breakfasts: Monet and London, at the Courtauld, reviewed

The French impressionist was a keen Anglophile, and he loved the capital best when the South Bank's chimneys were belching out smoke

‘Waterloo Bridge, Grey Weather’, 1900, by Monet [Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY/ Scala, Florence] 
issue 12 October 2024
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  • Monet and London: Views of the Thames

    Courtauld Gallery, until 19 January

For the maids on the top floors of the Savoy, everything was in turmoil. The 6th had been commandeered by wounded Boer War officers, and since February 1900 a suite of rooms on the 5th had been taken over by a French painter, who was using one as a studio.

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