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Old 06-11-19, 04:09 PM
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Default Victorian brain teaser, sadly no prize offered.

This picture represents a classic slice of Victorian sentimentality. Taking it as read that the original picture was painted from life and that everything seen in the picture was there at the time of the painting, i.e. that there was no artistic licence involved, can someone please tell me the youngest age that the veteran could have been when it was painted?

I would like to have a possible age and more importantly, the reasoning behind your answer.
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Old 06-11-19, 04:26 PM
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I believe the painting was painted in 1898 and the early indoor electric lighting would put the image around that period.

If he fought at waterloo aged lets say 16 then he would be around 99 years old.

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Old 06-11-19, 05:05 PM
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I believe the painting was painted in 1898 and the early indoor electric lighting would put the image around that period.

If he fought at waterloo aged lets say 16 then he would be around 99 years old.

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Excellent stuff, that was obviously too easy. The clue was definitely the date of the Stanley Berkeley painting above the fire place, painted in 1898. The sword would suggest that he was a charger so the youngest that he could have been there would be 16 or 17 or thereabouts.
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Old 06-11-19, 06:52 PM
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Leeds Art Gallery has it by Elizabeth (nee Thomson) Lady Butler painted in 1881 !
So an age of 80 odd which is a bit more plausible
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Old 06-11-19, 07:33 PM
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‘Scotland Forever’ is the famous painting by Lady Butler. The painting in post 1 is ‘Gordon’s and Greys to the front’ and is by Stanley Berkeley.

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Old 06-11-19, 08:08 PM
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Aha - sorry, I thought it was the Butler painting...
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Old 06-11-19, 09:25 PM
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This is the original painting.
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