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Description: | 'The plundering of Basing House, 1645' by Charles Landseer (1799-1879) was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1836 and was bequeathed to the Tate in London by Jacob Bell in 1859. Landseer specialized in romanticized history paintings. The engraving based on the painting is by John George Murray, a line and mezzotint engraver of historical subjects.
The painting represents the sacking of one of the chambers in Basing House. The main group to the right are prisoners. The troopers are either appropriating or destroying the plunder, consisting of Roman Catholic books, priests' vestments, gold and silver plate and cash. The corpse on the left is that of Major Robinson. Also depicted are Hugh Peters, a Puritan preacher who was executed after the Restoration, Colonel Hammond and John Paulet, 5th Marquis of Winchester with his daughter. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Civil War Major Robinson Roman Catholic siege puritan Hugh Peters John Paulet plunder 5th Marquis of Winchester Basing House | Temporal: | start=1840-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Charles Landseer; John George Murray; Mary Parkes | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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