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Edmund Bristow (1787-1876)
The Recruit c.1835
Oil on canvas | 51.2 x 66.6 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 400923
Edmund Bristow (1787-1876)
The Recruit c.1835
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The painting depicts a countryman seated at a table outside a public house playing cards with a soldier. A carter stands behind the table. All three look towards an armless Chelsea pensioner and a legless Greenwich pensioner who were presumably wounded in the Napoleonic wars. Over the doors of the public house are the initials G III R, for King George III.
Provenance
First recorded in Room no 41 at Frogmore House in 1871
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
51.2 x 66.6 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
67.9 x 85.1 x 7.9 cm (frame, external)
Other number(s)
Alternative title(s)
Pensioners
