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Stanley Berkeley Stanley Berkeley was a noted painter and etcher of military subjects. Born in the mid 19th century, he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1881 and was elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers & Engravers in 1884. During a successful career, he illustrated books and newspapers from his base at Surbiton Hill in Surrey and he married another noted artist, the genre and landscape painter Edith Berkeley. Known today particularly for his colourful, vibrant military paintings, Stanley Berkeley died in 1909. |
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Omdurman, Charge of the 21st Lancers by Stanley Berkeley. No text for this item |
Gordons and Greys to the Front by Stanley Berkeley. The charge of the Scots Greys with the Gordon Highlanders holding onto the stirrups. Although this is a point of argument as to the improbability, both regiments concur that this action did happen. |
Prince Rupert at Edgehill by Stanley Berkeley. Prince Rupert beginning his career as a leader of the Royalist Cavalry drove the Parliamentarian Cavalry off the field. Prince Rupert was a nephew of King Charles I and commanded the Royalist cavalry during the English Civil War. Prince Rupert was born on 17th December1619 in Prague. His mother was Elizabeth, the sister of Charles I. Rupert became a soldier and fought in the Thirty Years War (1618 - 1648) and in 1642, he joined the army of Charles I in the English Civil War. He was soon appointed to lead the royalist cavalry and fought in the first major battle of the war at Edgehill in October 1642. His cavalry charge completely routed the parliamentarians but he got carried away and pursued them too far from the battlefield, losing the chance to inflict a decisive defeat. His reputation grew after a number of military. In 1644 Prince Rupert led the spectacular relief of the siege of York but his army was defeated by a parliamentary army at Battle of Marston Moor, losing York and the north to Cromwell In June 1645 he took part in the Battle of Naseby at which the royalists were defeated. In September Rupert surrendered Bristol to parliament and in response the king abruptly withdrew his commission. Rupert left for exile in Holland. After the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Rupert held a series of British naval commands, fighting in the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars. On 19th November 1682 Prince Rupert died. |
Battle of Atbara 1898 by Stanley Berkeley. Depicting Cameron Highlanders. during the Battle of Atbara in the Sudan Campaign |
Victory at Candahar by Stanley Berkeley. No text for this item |
Charge of the Gordon Highlanders by Stanley Berkeley. The storming of the Dargai Heights. |
General Gordon Quelling a Riot at Darfur by Stanley Berkeley. No text for this item |
The Victory of Candahar, September 1st 1880, General Robert's Revenge of Maiwand by Stanley Berkeley. No text for this item |
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