The Duke of Marlborough Signing the Despatch at Blenheim[1].
Biographie
Robert Alexander Hillingford naît le à Londres[2]. De 1841 à 1864, il étudie à Düsseldorf, Munich, Rome et Florence. Il retourne à Londres en 1864[3]. Il expose la première fois en 1866 à la Royal Academy. Peintre prolifique, Hillingford peint des toiles historiques, principalement des scènes de bataille[4],[5]. Il meurt à Londres en 1904[5].
Toiles
The Duchess of Richmond's Ball (années 1870, Goodwood House)[6]
Hurry up the Guns: Wellington driving the French out of Spain and into France (Queen's Royal Lancers)
The Escape of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain with British troopers charging (Queen's Royal Lancers)
Surrender: The capture of General Lefebre Desnouettes at the Ford of the Elsa at Benavente, 1809, by Pte. Luke Guisdall, 10th Hussars (Royal Hussars)
The Duke of Marlborough saving the day at Ramillies (Queen's Royal Lancers)
Ramillies, 23 May 1706: capture of the standards and kettledrums by the Queen's Regiment of Horse (Royal Dragoon Guards)
The Defence of Hougoumont
After Waterloo: The English Army halting upon what had been the French position... (1889, Institute of Directors)
Napoleon's peril at Brienne-le-Chateau (1891)
The Morning of Waterloo (1896)
Summoned to Waterloo. Des fêtards quittent le bal de la Duchesse de Richmond alors que des soldats quitte Bruxelles pour aller aux combats.
Summoned to Waterloo: Brussels, dawn of June 16, 1815 (1898)
Battle of Balaclava, Charge of the Light Brigade (1899)
Sebastopol: the attack on the Redan (1899)
Death of Sir Richard Granville, captain of the Revenge, on board the Spanish Flagship San Pablo after the Battle of Flores (1899, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath)
Charge of the Light Brigade (1899)
The Scots Greys among the French Guns at Waterloo (1899, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards)
A critical moment at Quatre Bras (1900)
The flight of the French through the town of Vittoria: Peninsular War (1900)
South Africa, 1901: The Dawn of Peace (1901)
George II at Dettingen (1902)
The Duchess of Richmond's Ball
Wellington at Waterloo
Lord Hill invites the last remnants of the French Imperial Guard to surrender
Références
Le duc de Marlborough signant une dépêche (à l'intention de sa femme Sarah) à Blenheim.
(en) John Denison Champlin et Charles Callahan Perkins, «Hillingford, Robert Alexander», dans Cyclopedia of painters and paintings, vol.2, 1823-1886 (lire en ligne), p.260
(en) «Robert Alexander Hillingford», extrait de la notice dans le dictionnaire Bénézit, sur Oxford Art Online, (ISBN9780199773787)
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