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The Royal Hospital Chelsea

Image credit: The Royal Hospital Chelsea

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After a decade of construction work, the Royal Hospital Chelsea was finally completed and the first In-Pensioners admitted in February 1692 and by the end of March 476 were in residence. Early funding of the Royal Hospital was made from deductions from army pay, with occasional funding from other sources (such as the sale of commissions). This continued as the Royal Hospital's main source of revenue until 1847. Since then the Hospital has been supported by Government ‘Grant-in-Aid', supplemented by a small income derived from legacies, donations and the Army Prize Fund, allocated as the prize money for battles and campaigns in the nineteenth century. Wren's magnificent formal gardens, which provided a vista from the Royal Hospital to the River Thames and included canals, gazebos and summer houses (one each for the Governor and Lieutenant Governor), were all swept away from 1850 to 1868 when the Chelsea Embankment was constructed.

The Royal Hospital Chelsea

London

Title

The Royal Hospital Chelsea

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 62 x W 120 cm

Accession number

366

Work type

Painting

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The Royal Hospital Chelsea

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