Francisco & Frank
The Portrait of the Duke of Wellington 1812 - 1814 Francisco Goya |
Francisco Goya 1826 Museo del Prado |
The Spanish artist, Francisco Goya, painted during the period August 1812 – 1814, The Portrait of the Duke of Wellington.
The painting depicts, Lord Wellington during the interim of
the Peninsular War (1807 – 1814) and the Waterloo Campaign (1815)
At the start of the of the paining Lord Wellington, then
showing him as an Earl and wearing a red uniform. He is also wearing the Peninsular Medal (1810),
with the additional three bars. Wellington’s
medal is the highest medal awarded; the Cross has nine bars totalling for 13
actions. The medal can be view today at the basement at Apsley House, London.
Sitting for the paining could have taken place in Madrid,
Spain, after victory of Battle of Salamanca (1812). By 1814, Goya, made modifications to the painting
to show Wellington in full black dress, with gold braid, and the addition Order
of the Golden Fleece and Military Gold Cross.
Francisco Goya's chalk drawing 1812 |
Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Wellington |
Wellington on Copenhagen Thomas Lawrence |
Copenhagen's grave Stratfield Saye House |
Goya’s Portrait of the Duke of Wellington was
acquired by Wellington himself, and the possession past to Louisa Catherine
Caton, wife of Francis D’Arcy Osborne, 7th Duke of Leeds, and sister-in-law
of Wellington’s older brother, Richard Wellesley.
1961, John Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds, sold the
portrait at auction at Sotheby’s. a bid
of £140,000 (£3 million today), made by Charles Wrightsman. The Wolfson Foundation offered £100,000 and
the British Government offed a special Treasury grant of £40,000, obtaining the
portrait for the National Gallery.
Kempton Bunton |
At the time police thought that the art theft was an expert,
however, after Reuters had received a letter requesting a donation £140,000 to
charity to pay for TV licences for poorer people, also amnesty for the theft,
for which the painting would be returned.
The demand wasn’t paid.
Paul Julius Reuter |
1965, Bunton contacted the newspapers, claiming that that
the painting had been left left-luggage office at Birmingham New Street railway
station. 6-weeks later, he surrendered himself to the police. They discounted him as a theft.
Bunton was tired in a subsequential trial, where Bunton was
found guilty of theft of the frame, which had not been returned, and was sentenced
to 3-months in prison. Kempton’s defence
was led by Jeremy Hutchinson QC, who claimed that Kempton didn’t want to keep
the , thus meaning that he could not be convict of stealing it. As a result of the case, Section 11,
of the Theft Act, 1968, was added.
Making it offence to remove without authority.
James Bond Dr. No 1962 |
The Third of May, 1808 1814 Francisco Goya |
Francisco Goya painted during 1814, The Third of May,
1808. The description of the painting
is set in the early hours of the morning following the uprising and centres on
two masses of men: one a rigidly poised firing squad, the other a disorganized
group of captives held at gunpoint. Executioners
and victims face each other abruptly across a narrow space.
Frank Brangwyn |
Damn the War, 1919 1919 Frank Brangwyn |
Brangwyn notable work can be found in the Brangwyn Hall, Guildhall,
British Empire Panels.
During the First World War, Brangwyn, who wasn’t an official
war artist designed over 80 posters
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