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William Simson (British, 1800-1847), After David Wilkie RA Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Despatch image 1
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Lot 116

William Simson
(British, 1800-1847)
After David Wilkie RA
Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Despatch

21 May 2025, 12:00 BST
Edinburgh

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William Simson (British, 1800-1847), After David Wilkie RA

Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Despatch
signed, inscribed and dated 'W. Simson after D. Wilkie 1836' (lower left)
oil on panel
28 x 38cm (11 x 14 15/16in).

Footnotes

The original work from which the present lot is a copy seems to be an oil study by Wilkie in the collection of the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut. This study being a slightly different version of the fully worked oil which hangs in the Duke of Wellington's London residence, Apsley House.

The subject is that of the tavern dwellers next to the Chelsea Pensioners Hospital receiving the despatch following the Battle of Waterloo.

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