01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 57 - With Footnotes

Robert Alexander Hillingford (British, 1828-1904)

The Tired Warrior

Oil on canvas

31.1 x 37.5cm (12 1/4 x 14 3/4in).(2)

Private collection

Robert Alexander Hillingford (28 January 1828 – 1904) was an English painter. He specialized in historical pictures, often battle scenes.

He was born in London on 28 January 1828, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf for five years beginning in 1841. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He then traveled to Munich, Rome, Florence and Naples, where he married and worked for several years, producing paintings of Italian life. 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. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal He also painted some contemporary military scenes. More on Robert Alexander Hillingford

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