Robert Alexander Hillingford (1828-1904) 'Dawn of Peace', oil on canvas, 56 cm x 46 cm, pencil annotated and titled to stretcher, 56 x 46 cm (unframed)
Note - Hillingford exhibited a larger picture by the same title at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1901, the smaller version offered here is of the same period and is now considered a preparatory work, or commissioned version, of the exhibited painting
Prov: discovered within the military trunk of the late Colour Sergeant Roland George Jones (b.1895), 2nd Battalion Kings Royal Rifles, thence by descent
dirty, small hole to middle right, requires relining