Information

This sketch relates to the drawing and oil painting in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, and a drawing in Tate Britain. The scene shows an English girl saying goodbye to a German soldier sweetheart on the eve of the battle of Waterloo in 1815. The girl was modelled by Charles Dickens' daughter, Kate, and the soldier by a private in the Lifeguards.

  • Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist John Everett Millais -

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
Millais, PRB, PRA
365 Royal Academy of Arts, London 1967-01-15 - 1967-03-05
365 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 1967-03-15 - 1967-04-30
 

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Bemrose & Sons, Ltd, Derby p. 276.
 
Millais, PRB, PRA
Mary Bennett 1967 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and Royal Academy of Arts, London p. 93.
 
John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator
Paul Goldman 2004 Lund Humphries, Aldershot B130
 
The Drawings of John Everett Millais
Malcolm Warner 1979 Arts Council of Great Britain, London p. 33.

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