3-028-777 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The house of the late Daniel Maclise, R.A., in Cheyne-Walk, Chelsea, 1870. 'Mr. Maclise took up his residence at Chelsea [in London] to be within easy distance of Westminster Palace by river or road. As might be expected, he chose a house in "Cheyne-walk" (so named after the second Viscount Newhaven, created Lord Cheyne by William III.), the most picturesque spot in London, with its row of noble old houses of the reigns of William III. and Queen Anne; its boulevard of beeches and elms, its quays enlivened by barges and boats, its outlook over the river and Battersea Park to the Surrey hills...The house Mr. Maclise occupied was No. 4 in the walk. Mr. Cope, the Royal Academician, lived in it previously, and other persons of some note. Several artists of distinction still dwell along the walk, including Mr. Dante G. Rossetti, the painter and poet, leader of a section of the pre-Raphaelites - in the fine old house (No. 16)...In the house next to Mr. Maclise's (No. 5)...a short time since, resided Mr. T. J. Gullick, the artist and art-critic, who, curiously enough, had written, previous to living in Cheyne-walk, the account of his great neighbour's works and the other wall-paintings at Westminster in the authorised handbook to them'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.