Claude de Jongh is considered as a minor Dutch master but he achieved very refined cityscapes close in style to the Haarlem school albeit he is recorded as a member of the Utrecht Guild of St Luke from 1627. This shows the complex relationship between pictorial schools within the Netherlands, a nation which small territory facilitates the merging of different artistic trends. This painting is one of the three versions of the London Old Bridge depicted by Claude de Jongh in 1650. They are variante of his early masterpiece Old London Bridge (1630) preserved in Kenwood House. This early painting is based on a series of drawings (now in the Guildhall Library) that de Jongh could have executed during his stay in England in the early1620s. The same drawings may have served for the later series of the subject. The V&A painting presents some familiarities with the more recent style of Jan van Goyen from Haarlem, especially in the treatment of the water reflecting the grey clouds above. This technique is based on slight variations in tone and enhances the sense of depth of the all picture. Close to van Goyen's style is also the reddish brown ground of the buildings of both river banks, a tonality echoed in the small embarkations of the foreground.