The Wounded Cavalier
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Year1855
Dimensions89 cm × 104 cm (35 in × 41 in)
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| Artist | William Shakespeare Burton |
| Year | 1855 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, history painting |
| Dimensions | 89 cm × 104 cm (35 in × 41 in) |
| Location | Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
The Wounded Cavalier is an 1855 history painting by the British artist William Shakespeare Burton. [1] It depicts a scene from the English Civil War during the 1640s.
Burton was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. [2] Produced En plein air, Burton has a hole dug in the ground so he could display the ferns more accurately. [3] The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1856 held at the National Gallery in London, where it hung next to The Scapegoat by William Holman Hunt. Today it is in the Guildhall Art Gallery which acquired it in 1911. [4]
