Claude Monet’s Water Lilies often get all the plaudits but some of the artist’s finest Impressionist paintings are depictions of views of the River Thames, including Charing Cross Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and the Houses of Parliament. Created in London between 1889 and 1901, they were shown in Paris in 1904 but have never been exhibited in the UK (despite Monet’s desire to do so) until now. With the Monet and London. Views of the Thames exhibition, The Courtauld Gallery is presenting the paintings together 120 years after they were displayed across the Channel (not far from the Savoy Hotel where many of them were painted), giving people the chance to see his interpretation of some of London’s most iconic views as he’d intended.