Thomas Leeson Rowbotham (1823-1875) was an Irish watercolour, landscape and marine artist and lithographer. He was the son of the watercolour artist, Thomas Leeson Scrase Rowbotham (1783–1853). He was trained by his father and first did serious works in 1847 on a sketching trip to Wales.

This is the only known oil painting by Thomas Leeson Rowbotham, who is best known as a watercolour painter of local Bristol views. He was living in Bath when he painted it and was not to settle in Bristol until about 1825. 

The massive wall on the right was built to support Windsor Terrace. Little of the terrace was here at the time as building work had stopped in the economic collapse of 1793 and was not resumed until 1808.