'News from the Front'

Details

Charles Meer Webb (1830-1895)
'News from the Front'
signed and dated 'C M Webb 1880' (lower left) and indistinctly signed, inscribed and dated (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 x 31½ in. (91.5 x 80 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 September 1987, lot 157.

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Lot Essay

Three Chelsea Pensioners follow the course of a campaign in a newspaper. They sit below a map of India, where they may have served in quelling the Indian Mutiny. A tattered French flag, captured during the Napoleonic campaign, hangs above them, while a helmet on the wall behind serves as a reminder of previous conflict.

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