Two Fighting Knights, Known as ‘Mort de Monseigneur le Duc de Clarence’, Alfred Emile O'Hara de Nieuwerkerke, 1838

Two Fighting Knights, Known as ‘Mort de Monseigneur le Duc de Clarence’, Alfred Emile O'Hara de Nieuwerkerke, 1838

casting, h 54cm × w 61cm × d 21cm More details

Medieval knights fired the imagination of 19th-century Europeans. This figure group represents the Battle of Baugé (1421) from the Hundred Years’ War between England and France. There is a detailed description of the battle on the base. The group was made by Alfred de Nieuwerkerke, a French-Dutch sculptor and later an important French cultural minister.

On display in room 1.15