Robert Alexander Hillingford
Robert Alexander Hillingford (28 January 1828 – 1904) was an
painter
. He specialized in historical pictures, often battle scenes.
Biography
He was born in
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 painted some contemporary military scenes, including his 1901 RA painting South Africa, 1901 - The Dawn of Peace.
The original paintings often come up at auction, and with a large amount of the collection[clarification needed] dispersed in 1998, they are widely scattered.
Paintings
- The Duchess of Richmond's Ball (1870s – Goodwood House)[2]
- An Incident in the story of Don Quixote by Cervantes (1879)
- Yet Still a King (1888 – Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum)
- 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: 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)
Notes
- ^ Champlin & Perkins 1913, pp. 260, 261.
- ^ Baird 2007, p. 157.
References
- Champlin, John Deniso; Perkins, Charles C., eds. (1913). "Hillingford, Robert Alexander". Cyclopedia of painters and paintings. Vol. 2. New York: C. Scribner's sons. pp. 260, 261.
- Baird, Rosemary (2007). Goodwood: Art and Architecture, Sport and Family. Frances lincoln. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-7112-2769-9.
- Robert Hillingford at military-prints.com
Further reading
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Robert Alexander Hillingford.
- Harrington, Peter. (1993). British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700-1914. London: Greenhill. ISBN 1-85367-157-6
- Roe, F. Gordon, "The Hillingford Sage", Connoisseur, Vol. 190, No. 763, September 1975, pp. 50–55.