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The Last Muster
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[[File:Hubert von Herkomer 1875 - The last Muster.jpg |thumb|[[Hubert von Herkomer]], 1875, ''The Last Muster'']]
[[File:Hubert von Herkomer 1871 - Sunday at the Chelsea Hospital (The Graphic).jpg|thumb|[[Hubert von Herkomer]], 1875, ''Sunday at the Chelsea Hospital'']]
'''''The Last Muster''''' is an 1875 oil painting by Sir [[Hubert von Herkomer]], based on his wood engraving ''Sunday at the Chelsea Hospital'' published in ''[[The Graphic]]'' on 18 February 1871. The painting held by the [[Lady Lever Art Gallery]] in Liverpool.
==Description==
The work depicts a group of [[Chelsea Pensioners]] at a Sunday morning service in the chapel of the [[Royal Hospital Chelsea]]. The aged pensioner at the near end of the second row has died; his neighbour is holding his wrist, checking in vain for a pulse. The painting measures .
Several of the figures in the painting are based on sketches of inmates at the hospital, made by Herkomer directly on the canvas. Others are based on his friends or family. The figure with white beard in the third row is based on Herkomer's father. In the background are Herkomer's wife Anna, and also his patron the photographer [[Clarence Edmund Fry]] and members of Fry's family.
==Reception==
The painting was exhibited at the [[Royal Academy summer exhibition]] in 1875. It was a critical and popular success, and a barrier was erected to protect it from the thronging crowd, the fourth time the rare honour had been accorded in four years: it was needed in 1874 for [[Luke Fildes]]'s ''[[Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward]]'' and [[Lady Butler]]'s ''[[The Roll Call]]'' , and in 1871 for [[William Powell Frith]]'s ''[[The Salon d'Or, Homburg]]''. Previous examples include Frith's ''[[The Derby Day]]'' in 1858 and [[David Wilkie (artist)|David Wilkie]]'s ''[[Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch]]'' in 1822.
Among those who admired the painting was [[Vincent van Gogh]], who collected several prints by Herkomer while he was living in London from 1873 to 1875. ''The Last Muster'' inspired Van Gogh's 1882 pencil drawing ''Worn Out'' and his 1890 painting ''[[At Eternity's Gate]]''.
Herkomer's painting was bought for £1,200 by Clarence Edmund Fry, and exhibited at the business premises of [[Elliott & Fry]] on [[Baker Street]], where the paintings were displayed alongside their photographs to demonstrate their artistic merit.
The work made Herkomer internationally famous. It won a gold ''Medaille d'Honneur'' at the [[Exposition Universelle (1878)|Exposition Universelle]] in Paris in 1878: the only other English painter similarly recognised at the exhibition was [[John Everett Millais]]. After Herkomer won the gold medal in Paris, [[Arthur Turrell]] made a mezzotint after the painting for [[Lefevre Gallery|Pilgeram and Lefèvre]]. Copyright was registered in the US by [[Knoedler]] in 1878. Herkomer was made a chevalier of the [[légion d'honneur]] in 1879, ennobled by King [[Otto of Bavaria]] in 1899 (adding "von" to his name), and knighted in England in 1907.
The painting sold to the stockbroker and accountant [[Sir Cuthbert Quilter, 1st Baronet|William Cuthbert Quilter]] in 1881, and it was then exhibited at the [[Munich International Exposition]] in 1883, at the [[Whitechapel Fine Art Exhibition]] in 1885, at the [[Royal Jubilee Exhibition]] in Manchester in 1887, and at the [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in Chicago in 1893. It was sold at auction in 1909 for £3,000, and bought at [[Christie's]] in 1923 by [[William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme]] for the newly-opened [[Lady Lever Art Gallery]] in [[Port Sunlight]], where it remains.
==References==
* [https://ift.tt/2J87OvI 'The Last Muster: Sunday at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea' 1875], Lady Lever Art Gallery
* [https://ift.tt/2yuYPAE About the artwork], National Museums Liverpool
* [https://ift.tt/2J87P2K The Last Muster, Sunday at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea], ArtUK
* [https://ift.tt/2yuYRIM "Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London: "The Graphic and Social Realism, 1869-1891"], Andrea Korda, p.150-153
* [https://ift.tt/2JdtIhq The Last Muster, Sunday at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea], victorianweb.org
* [https://ift.tt/2yuYSfO The last muster], Library of Congress
* [https://ift.tt/2J87QDQ The last muster], Library of Congress
* [https://ift.tt/2yruAuA The last muster], Library of Congress
* [https://ift.tt/2J8u09f Sunday at Chelsea Hospital (from "The Graphic")], Metropolitan Museum of Art
* [https://ift.tt/2yruB1C The Last Muster]
* [https://ift.tt/2J87Tj0 Letter 199, To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 8 or Monday, 9 January 1882], vangoghletters.org
* [https://ift.tt/2yruByE Letter 337, To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 21 April 1883], vangoghletters.org
[[Category:Paintings by Hubert von Herkomer]]
[[Category:1875 paintings]]
[[Category:Collections of the Lady Lever Art Gallery]]
[[File:Hubert von Herkomer 1871 - Sunday at the Chelsea Hospital (The Graphic).jpg|thumb|[[Hubert von Herkomer]], 1875, ''Sunday at the Chelsea Hospital'']]
'''''The Last Muster''''' is an 1875 oil painting by Sir [[Hubert von Herkomer]], based on his wood engraving ''Sunday at the Chelsea Hospital'' published in ''[[The Graphic]]'' on 18 February 1871. The painting held by the [[Lady Lever Art Gallery]] in Liverpool.
==Description==
The work depicts a group of [[Chelsea Pensioners]] at a Sunday morning service in the chapel of the [[Royal Hospital Chelsea]]. The aged pensioner at the near end of the second row has died; his neighbour is holding his wrist, checking in vain for a pulse. The painting measures .
Several of the figures in the painting are based on sketches of inmates at the hospital, made by Herkomer directly on the canvas. Others are based on his friends or family. The figure with white beard in the third row is based on Herkomer's father. In the background are Herkomer's wife Anna, and also his patron the photographer [[Clarence Edmund Fry]] and members of Fry's family.
==Reception==
The painting was exhibited at the [[Royal Academy summer exhibition]] in 1875. It was a critical and popular success, and a barrier was erected to protect it from the thronging crowd, the fourth time the rare honour had been accorded in four years: it was needed in 1874 for [[Luke Fildes]]'s ''[[Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward]]'' and [[Lady Butler]]'s ''[[The Roll Call]]'' , and in 1871 for [[William Powell Frith]]'s ''[[The Salon d'Or, Homburg]]''. Previous examples include Frith's ''[[The Derby Day]]'' in 1858 and [[David Wilkie (artist)|David Wilkie]]'s ''[[Chelsea Pensioners reading the Waterloo Dispatch]]'' in 1822.
Among those who admired the painting was [[Vincent van Gogh]], who collected several prints by Herkomer while he was living in London from 1873 to 1875. ''The Last Muster'' inspired Van Gogh's 1882 pencil drawing ''Worn Out'' and his 1890 painting ''[[At Eternity's Gate]]''.
Herkomer's painting was bought for £1,200 by Clarence Edmund Fry, and exhibited at the business premises of [[Elliott & Fry]] on [[Baker Street]], where the paintings were displayed alongside their photographs to demonstrate their artistic merit.
The work made Herkomer internationally famous. It won a gold ''Medaille d'Honneur'' at the [[Exposition Universelle (1878)|Exposition Universelle]] in Paris in 1878: the only other English painter similarly recognised at the exhibition was [[John Everett Millais]]. After Herkomer won the gold medal in Paris, [[Arthur Turrell]] made a mezzotint after the painting for [[Lefevre Gallery|Pilgeram and Lefèvre]]. Copyright was registered in the US by [[Knoedler]] in 1878. Herkomer was made a chevalier of the [[légion d'honneur]] in 1879, ennobled by King [[Otto of Bavaria]] in 1899 (adding "von" to his name), and knighted in England in 1907.
The painting sold to the stockbroker and accountant [[Sir Cuthbert Quilter, 1st Baronet|William Cuthbert Quilter]] in 1881, and it was then exhibited at the [[Munich International Exposition]] in 1883, at the [[Whitechapel Fine Art Exhibition]] in 1885, at the [[Royal Jubilee Exhibition]] in Manchester in 1887, and at the [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in Chicago in 1893. It was sold at auction in 1909 for £3,000, and bought at [[Christie's]] in 1923 by [[William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme]] for the newly-opened [[Lady Lever Art Gallery]] in [[Port Sunlight]], where it remains.
==References==
* [https://ift.tt/2J87OvI 'The Last Muster: Sunday at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea' 1875], Lady Lever Art Gallery
* [https://ift.tt/2yuYPAE About the artwork], National Museums Liverpool
* [https://ift.tt/2J87P2K The Last Muster, Sunday at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea], ArtUK
* [https://ift.tt/2yuYRIM "Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London: "The Graphic and Social Realism, 1869-1891"], Andrea Korda, p.150-153
* [https://ift.tt/2JdtIhq The Last Muster, Sunday at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea], victorianweb.org
* [https://ift.tt/2yuYSfO The last muster], Library of Congress
* [https://ift.tt/2J87QDQ The last muster], Library of Congress
* [https://ift.tt/2yruAuA The last muster], Library of Congress
* [https://ift.tt/2J8u09f Sunday at Chelsea Hospital (from "The Graphic")], Metropolitan Museum of Art
* [https://ift.tt/2yruB1C The Last Muster]
* [https://ift.tt/2J87Tj0 Letter 199, To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 8 or Monday, 9 January 1882], vangoghletters.org
* [https://ift.tt/2yruByE Letter 337, To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 21 April 1883], vangoghletters.org
[[Category:Paintings by Hubert von Herkomer]]
[[Category:1875 paintings]]
[[Category:Collections of the Lady Lever Art Gallery]]
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