ile west of Hyde Park Corner), thus:--

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And at the south termination of Sloane Street, which is 3,299 feet in
length, the King's Road commences from Sloane Square.

THE MAIN FULHAM ROAD passes for about a mile through a district called by
the general name of Brompton, which is a hamlet in the parish of
Kensington. The house, No. 14 Queen's Buildings, Knightsbridge, on the
left-hand or south side of the road, [Picture: Hooper's Court] at the
corner of Hooper's Court, occupied, when sketched in 1844, as two shops,
by John Hutchins, dyer, and Moses Bayliss, tailor, and now (1860) by
Hutchins alone, was, from 1792 to 1797 inclusive, the residence of Mr. J.
C. Nattes, an artist, who deserves notice as one of the sixteen by whose
association, in 1805, the first exhibition of water-colour paintings was
formed.

From 1792 to 1797 this house was described as No. 14 Queen's Buildings,
Knightsbridge; but in the latter year the address was changed to No. 14
Knightsbridge Green. {25a} In 1800 it was known as No. 14 Knightsbridge,
and in 1803 as No. 14 Queen's Row, Knightsbridge. {25b} In 1810 as
Gloucester Buildings, Brompton. {25c} In 1811 as Queen's Buildings.
{25d} In 1828 as Gloucester Row. {25e} In 1831 as Gloucester Buildings;
{25f} and it has now reverted to its original name of Queen's Buildings,
_Knightsbridge_, in opposition to Queen's Buildings, _Brompton_, the
division being Hooper's Court, if, indeed, the original name was not
Queen's _Row_, Knightsbridge, as this in 1772 was the address of William
Wynne Ryland (the engraver who was hanged for forgery in 1783). When
houses began to be built on the same side of the way, beyond Queen's
_Row_, the term "_Buildings_" appears to have been assumed as a
distinction from the row west of Hooper's Court; which row would
naturally have been considered as a continuation, although, in 1786, the
Royal Academy Catalogue records Mr. J. G. Huck, an exhibitor, as residing
at No. 11 Gloster Row, Knightsbridge.

These six alterations of name within half a century, to say nothing of
the previous changes, illustrate the extreme difficulty which attends
precise local identification in London, and are merely offered at the
very starting point as evidence at least of the desire to be accurate.

About the year 1800, the late residence of Mr. Nattes became the lodgings
of Arthur Murphy, too well known as a literary character of the last
c