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Robert Alexander Hillingford (28 January 1828 – 1904) was an
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painter. He specialized in historical pictures, often battle scenes.
Biography
He was born in
London
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on 28 January 1828, and studied at the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
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for five years beginning in 1841. He is associated with the
Düsseldorf school of painting
The Düsseldorf school of painting is a term referring to a group of painters who taught or studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Academy (now the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf or Düsseldorf State ...
. He then traveled to
Munich
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,
Rome
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, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
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,
Florence
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and
Naples
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, where he married and worked for several years, producing paintings of Italian life. One painting from this period entitled ''The Last Evening of the Carnival'' was exhibited at
St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
in 1859. He returned to London in 1864, and first exhibited at the
Royal Academy in 1866; it was at this time that he began to work on historical subjects, especially of the
Napoleonic Wars
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. He was a regular exhibitor at the
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
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Ver ...
'' 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''.
''
![Dernier carre de la Garde - gen Hill](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Dernier_carre_de_la_Garde_-_gen_Hill.png)
The original paintings often come up at auction, and with a large amount of the collection dispersed in 1998, they are widely scattered.
Paintings
* ''
The Duchess of Richmond's Ball'' (1870s –
Goodwood House)
* ''An Incident in the story of Don Quixote by Cervantes (1879)''
* ''Yet Still a King'' (1888 –
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
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)
* ''Hurry up the Guns: Wellington driving the French out of Spain and into France'' (
Queen's Royal Lancers
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The regiment was formed in ...
)
* ''The Escape of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain with British troopers charging'' (
Queen's Royal Lancers
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The regiment was formed in ...
)
* ''Surrender: The capture of General
Lefebre Desnouettes at the Ford of the Elsa at
Benavente, 1809, by Pte. Luke Guisdall, 10th Hussars'' (
Royal Hussars
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)
* ''The
Duke of Marlborough
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saving the day at
Ramillies'' (
Queen's Royal Lancers
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The regiment was formed in ...
)
* ''
Ramillies, 23 May 1706: capture of the standards and kettledrums by the Queen's Regiment of Horse'' (
Royal Dragoon Guards
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)
* ''The Defence of
Hougoumont
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''
* ''After Waterloo: The English Army halting upon what had been the French position...'' (1889 –
Institute of Directors
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)
* ''
Napoleon
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's peril at Brienne-le-Chateau'' (1891)
* ''The Morning of
Waterloo'' (1896)
![Summoned to Waterloo, Brussels, dawn of June 16, 1815 by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1898)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Summoned_to_Waterloo%2C_Brussels%2C_dawn_of_June_16%2C_1815_by_Robert_Alexander_Hillingford_%281898%29.jpg)
* ''Summoned to Waterloo:
Brussels
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, dawn of June 16, 1815'' (1898)
* ''
Battle of Balaclava,
Charge of the Light Brigade'' (1899)
* ''
Sebastopol
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: 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
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, Bath)
* ''Charge of the Light Brigade'' (1899)
* ''The Scots Greys among the French Guns at Waterloo'' (1899 –
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
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)
* ''A critical moment at
Quatre Bras
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'' (1900)
* ''The flight of the French through the town of
Vittoria:
Peninsular War
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'' (1900)
* ''South Africa, 1901: The Dawn of Peace''. (1901)
* ''
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at
Dettingen'' (1902)
Notes
References
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*
Robert Hillingford at military-prints.com
Further reading
* Harrington, Peter. (1993). ''British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700-1914''. London: Greenhill.
* Roe, F. Gordon, "The Hillingford Sage", ''Connoisseur'', Vol. 190, No. 763, September 1975, pp. 50–55.
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1828 births
1904 deaths
English artists
British war artists
19th-century war artists
Düsseldorf school of painting