Artists painting in an exhibition of paintings at the British Institution. Process print after A.E. Chalon.

The British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom, shortly after its opening in 1806 at 52 Pall Mall, on the north side of Pall Mall in the former premises of the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. "Students at the British Institution; a room in Pall Mall, with artists copying from an exhibition of pictures by old masters, the artists include from left to right, Dighton, unknown, Sass, Mrs Green, Linnell, Mulready, unknown, Gent, Irvin, Ramsey Richard Reinagle, G. Dane, Alfred Edward Chalon, Miss Dane, M. Sharp, Lewis, Samuel, Medland, Miss Pyne and unknown, the porter climbing stairs"-- British Museum online catalogue