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Calling the Roll After An Engagement, Crimea, better known as The Roll Call, is an 1874 oil-on-canvas painting by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler. It became one of the most celebrated British paintings of the 19th century, but later fell out of critical favour [citation needed]. The painting depicts a roll call of soldiers from the Grenadier ...
Calling the Roll After An Engagement, Crimea (or The Roll Call (1874) – Royal Collection; Buckingham Palace) Missed (1874) [9] The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras (1875 – National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne) Balaclava (1876 – City of Manchester Art Gallery) The Return from Inkerman (1877 – Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull)
Remnants of an Army was exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1879, [3] and acquired by Sir Henry Tate, who presented to the Tate Gallery in 1897. Still owned by the Tate Gallery, it was on long-term loan as part of a permanent exhibition at the Somerset Military Museum : the 13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment (Light Infantry) was ...
Butler was inspired to paint the charge as a response to the aesthetic paintings that she saw — and intensely disliked — on a visit to the Grosvenor Gallery.She had developed a reputation for her military pictures after the favourable reception of her earlier painting The Roll Call of 1874, on a subject from the Crimean War, and her 1879 painting Remnants of an Army, on the 1842 retreat ...
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National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras is an oil painting on canvas from 1875, painted by Elizabeth Thompson . She became better known as Lady Butler after her marriage to William Butler in 1877.
Historical record of the Sixth, or Inniskilling Regiment of Dragoons: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689, and of its subsequent services to 1846. London. Dalton, Charles (1904). The Waterloo roll call. With biographical notes and anecdotes. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. Witherow, Thomas (1913).
In 2013, Private David Jenkins (bottom left in the painting) was confirmed as having fought in the battle from Lady Butler's sketch of him taken at Portsmouth among the other survivors; his name has subsequently been added to the roll of those who fought at Rorke's Drift. [2] [5] [6] [7]