Kensington Gravel Pits

[1] It was a popular location for artists during the early 19th century, with John Linnell, Thomas Webster and others living in the area.

Another painter, Augustus Wall Callcott, was born there at No.1 (now 128 Church Street).

[2] The Italian composer Muzio Clementi also lived there in the 1820s,[3] and later the English composer William Horsley, who married Callcott's eldest daughter, Elizabeth Hutchins Callcott.

From the early 1830s Horsley often invited his friend Felix Mendelssohn to stay there during his visits to England.

[4] Linnell's 1812 landscape painting Kensington Gravel Pits depicts the gravel pits during the Regency era.