2-645-885 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Wounded Cavalier', 1855, (1912). Pre-Raphaelite painting, depicts a scene from the English Civil War in which a wounded royalist soldier is comforted by a Puritan woman while her lover looks on. On the broken sword is a butterfly. William Shakespeare Burton (1824 -1916) was an English genre and historical painter of the Victorian era. He is emembered mainly for The Wounded Cavalier (1855). From The Connoisseur Vol XXXII. [ Otto Limited, London, 1912]