A king with his horse, alarmed by ghostly women
William Hamilton British
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Hamilton belonged to a generation determined to expand the scope of the arts in Britain. He traveled to Rome as a teenager to study with Antonio Zucchi, returned to England to make decorative paintings for Robert Adam, then entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1769. From that point forward he focused on historical and literary subjects, together with portaits. This early drawing of an armored king with his horse, disturbed by a ghostly procession echoes a famous scene in Shakespeare's King Richard III, but may in fact illustrate a subject from Ossian.
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