Leadenhall Market

Leadenhall Market is represented with some marketers organising their stands and some passers-by under its arcades. Leadenhall Market began as a casual market place in the fourteenth century, where people from outside London could sell poultry, cheese and butter. The name Leadenhall was taken from the lead roofed mansion in the shadow of which the traders could set up their stalls. In the fifteenth century it became especially popular as a poultry market. After the Great Fire, it was the only market to survive, thus expanding to absorb the City traders. The current redecorated Victorian building was designed by Sir Horace Jones and opened in 1881.
Jacqueline Stanley studied at Beckenham College of Art and Royal College of Art from 1949 to 1952. This was one of a series of London Markets that Jacqueline Stanley painted towards the end of the 1960s, at a time when many of the traditional markets were under pressure to move or change. She was interested in documenting an ever-changing London. In 1964, Jacqueline had returned from painting the landscape of Kent, to live in swinging London. Towards the end of the turbulent ‘60s, she was teaching fine art at the Byam Shaw and Hornsey College of Art. She’s been based in Ireland since 1957.