Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

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George Jones, R.A.

The Battle of Inkerman, Crimea

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George Jones, R.A.

London 1786 - 1869

The Battle of Inkerman, Crimea


Pen and brown ink over pencil;

signed, inscribed and dated lower centre: a tribute of Esteem to The Rt. Hon. Lord Overstone Geo Jones RA. 1861, further inscribed lower left: Inkerman and throughout with the identities of the key personalities in the battle

742 by 1304 mm.

Sale, London, Christie's, 19 November 1968, lot 60, bt. Bennison;
sale, Versailles, Hôtel des ventes du Château, 31 May 2020, lot 80;
where acquired by the present owner
P. Harrington, 'The Battle Paintings of George Jones, R.A.', Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, vol. LXVII, no. 272, Winter 1989, p. 251

The Battle of Inkerman, fought during the Crimean War on 5 November 1854, resulted in a victory for the allied armies of Britain, France, Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire over the Imperial Russian Army.


George Jones, the son of a mezzotint engraver, enrolled in the Royal Academy schools in 1801 and he was elected a full member of that institution in 1822. During the Napoleonic Wars he served in the South Devon Militia and was present in occupied Paris in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo.


After the war he returned to life as a professional painter and he gained much attention for his paintings of military engagements. Jones exhibited a number of pictures of the Crimea war at the Royal Academy and in 1858 he presented The Battle of Inkerman, a now untraced oil painting, which the present large-scale drawing is connected.1


Jones has dedicated this drawing to ‘Lord Overstone’. This refers to Samuel Jones-Loyd, first and last Baron Overstone (1796-1883), a banker who was one of the richest men in the country. His daughter and sole heiress, Harriet, married Robert Loyd-Lindsay, who rose to become a Brigadier General and 1st Baron Wantage. During the Crimean War he served with the Scots Guards and he was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Battle or the Alma and the Battle of Inkerman.

  

1. A. Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1906, p. 272, no. 876