Robert Alexander Hillingford
(1825-1904) was an English painter. He specialized in historical pictures, often battle scenes.
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He was born in London on January 28, 1828, and studied in Desseldorf in 1841 for five years and before traveling to Munich, Rome, Florence and Naples, where he married and worked for several years, producing paintings of Italian life. One painting from this period entitled The Last Evening of the Carnival was exhibited at St. Petersburg in 1859. He returned to London in 1864, and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1866; it was at this time that he began to work on historical subjects, especially of the Napoleonic Wars. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, British Institution and at other galleries. While he was attracted to costume pieces such as An incident in the early life of Louis XIV and During the wanderings of Charles Edward Stuart', he also included some contemporary military scenes including his 1901 RA painting South Africa, 1901 - The Dawn of Peace.
Wellington at Waterloo
Lord Hill invites the last remnants of the French Imperial Guard to surrenderThe original paintings often come up at auction, and, with a large amount of the collection dispersed in 1998, the original paintings are widely scattered.
Related Paintings of Robert Alexander Hillingford :. | Portrait of the King Charles X of France in coronation robes | Thomas Hopkinson | Christian Allegory | Nature morte | The Road to Calvary | Related Artists: Baron Pierre Narcisse GuerinParis 1774-Rome 1833
French painter. He won enthusiastic recognition in 1799 for his Marius Sextus (Louvre). A defender of the classicism of J. L. David, he became director of the École de Rome in 1822. He counted among his pupils Delacroix, G??ricault, and Ary Scheffer, who were to launch the romantic school. Lachtropius, NicolaesDutch Baroque Era Painter, active 1656-1700 Jean Francois BoisselatPortrait de Francois, marquis de Barbe-Marbois (1745-1837)
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