Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria - Thomas Del Mar

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EDWARD HENRY CORBOULD RI (1815-1905)
The Marquis of Waterford at the Eglinton Tournament
August 31 1839
watercolour, signed bottom left with an artist’s pallet
enclosing the initials RI and dated 1894, inscribed with the
title on the bottom right and ‘painted expressly for Reginald
Henry Pott Esq by E.H.C.: his father in law - aged 82, 1897’,
in an early glazed gilt gesso frame
82cm; 32Din x 59cm; 23Din
Exhibited
The Victorian Era Exhibition, Earls Court 1897, no. 209.
The Eglinton Tournament was held at Eglinton Castle,
Aryshire on 28th and 30th August 1839 and attracted
around 100,000 people. It started with a procession
accompanied by torrential rain which completely
waterlogged the ground. The knights sheltered under a
grandstand next to the lists which collapsed under the
weight of water. However, the tournament continued with
running at the quintain and tilting. The present picture
records what was apparently the best tilt, that held
between Lord Eglinton and Lord Waterford, after the
second course when the former broke his lance. Much of
the armour for Eglinton was supplied by the London art
dealer Samuel Luke Pratt who worked at 47 New Bond
Street. See K. Watts 1992, pp. 449-450.
Edward Henry Corbould was appointed ‘Instructor in
Historical Painting’ to the Royal Family in 1851. He taught a
number of members of the family over the following
twenty-one years and many of his best works were
acquired by Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and other
members of the family. He produced a large number of
illustrations for historical, biblical, and literary subjects,
including Chaucer, Spencer and Shakespeare.
£2000-3000
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