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“The grouping is good and the principal part of it thrown into a pleasing clearness of cheerful daylight. The effect of the opposite side of the street on the right hand in shadow is powerful. The spectator almost imagines he could turn the bright corner of the house near which the children are standing and walk along the street itself. The pigeon flying about add considerably to this breadth. That part of the street which is in bright sunlight is effective, but perhaps slightly too slatey. This however is no doubt done with a view of throwing out the figures and baggage waggons. The church is credibly painted.” [Tyne Mercury Oct 7th 1834]
The Queen's Dragoon Guards were based in Cardiff, stationed in Newcastle, and travelled to Carlisle in 1834. In Cardiff Regimental Museum is another painting by Henry Perlee Parker of almost the same group of people but outside St Nicholas's Cathedral in Newcastle, which was bought by Lord Lonsdale. [ex inf. Mrs Jean Scott, chairman of Friends of Laing Art Gallery] Formerly occasionally attributed to Luke Clennell.
1994 “Clennel [sic] painting cleaned, rehung” [Churchwardens Record HEXAB9535 p71]
Henry Perlee Parker HRSA (1795–1873) a Devon man who lived in Newcastle 1815–1841. This picture probably dates from 1830s. It was not included in a major exhibition of his work at the Laing Art Gallery in 1969–70 but the catalogue for this exhibition might help to refine the date. [HD]