Robert Alexander Hillingford Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"The Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, 1892"
Title: The Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, 1892
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 22 x 16 in | Image Size: 18 x 12 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |
This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.
About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:
Hillingford was a very prolific artist of Historic genre paintings, particularly scenes of battle. He was a Costume Realist and like many similar artists of the day such as Crofts, Woodville and Leutze, he studied in Dusseldorf returning to England in 1864, and exhibited his first painting at the Royal Academy two years later, in between he traveled to Munich, Rome, Florence and Naples, where he married and worked for several years, producing paintings of Italian life. Towards the end of his life he began to paint military scenes particularly events from the Napoleonic Wars, there are numerous paintings by him depicting incidents before, during and after the battle of Waterloo. Other themes popular with the artist were the battles of the Duke of Marlborough, Dettingen, and military events of the seventeenth century, but Hillingford did produce some contemporary paintings such as ‘Sebastapol; the attack on the Redan’ exhibited at the Royal Academy and ‘South Africa: the dawn of Peace’ in which Lord Kitchener on horseback holds up a peace proclamation surrounded by Boer Civilians. Hillingford paid close attention to accuracy in details of dress and had a collection of original uniforms. He was Vice President of the Kernoozers Club, the members of which were all collectors of objects d'art and militaria, but he achieved limited fame during his lifetime.
His original paintings often come up at auction, however a large amount of the collection dispersed in 1998, they are to this day widely scattered around the world.
