Two Cavalry Officers
John Lewis Brown (Bordeaux 1829 - Paris 1890)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1875 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
724 x 578 mm (28 1/2 x 22 3/4 in)
Order this imageCollection
Chartwell, Kent (Accredited Museum)
On show at
Chartwell, Kent, London and South East, National Trust
NT 1102565
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Two Cavalry Officers by John Lewis Brown (Bordeaux 1829 – Paris 1890), signed and dated: John Leiws Brown 1875. Two men on horseback in 18th century costume, each on a grey horse, one figure pointing. This scene from the Seven Years War was given to Churchill by Sir Philip Sassoon, apparently under the mistaken impression that it showed an episode from his ancestor Marlbrough's campaiongsn
Provenance
Transferred by HM Treasury, 1968
Marks and inscriptions
signed and dated
Makers and roles
John Lewis Brown (Bordeaux 1829 - Paris 1890), artist of original