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Victory in the Battle of Minden (Signed) (Original)
Victory in the Battle of Minden (Signed) (Original)
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 13" x 17" (330mm x 420mm)
Date: 1966
Signature: Signed by artist lower left
Code: EmbletonRRoses
This is the Signed unique original Gouache painting by Ron Embleton.
On the 1st August 1759, the 37th Foot fought at The Battle of Minden, during the Seven Years' War. This is now one of the three main Regimental Days of The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment. The French Army of Marshal de Contades was marching towards Hannover and to block this move, Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, resolved to hold Minden. The Duke's force included six British infantry regiments, one of which was the 37th Foot.
As the French approached, the British infantry were issued the confusing order to 'Advance with drums beating in proper time'. The term 'proper time' was interpreted as the rate of advance, whilst the Duke meant 'in due course, when the order is given'. The allied infantry advanced, in spite of crossfire from sixty French guns.
They were then charged by French cavalry, who were engaged at ten yards to such devastating effect that the ground was strewn with men and horses. The advance continued against two more cavalry charges, which were also defeated. The French were driven from the field in confusion as, uniquely, infantry had attacked and scattered massed squadrons of cavalry.
On the 1st August each year, every officer and soldier in the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment wears a 'Minden' rose in his headdress in memory of the men of the 37th who, either before or after the Battle, picked red dog-roses from the hedges and put them in their caps. This tradition was inherited from The Royal Hampshire Regiment. The Seven Years' War finished with the Peace of Paris of 1763.
- Artist BiographyRonald Sydney Embleton (6 October 1930 - 13 February 1988; Limehouse, London, UK)
Born in Limehouse, London in 1930, Embleton began drawing as a young boy, submitting a cartoon to the News of the World at the age of 9 and, at 12, winning a national poster competition.
In 1946 Embleton went to the South-East Essex Technical College and School of Art. There he had the incredible good fortune to be taught by David Bomberg, one of the greatest ? though at that time sadly under-appreciated ? British artists of the twentieth century.
At age 17 he earned himself a place in a commercial studio but soon left to work freelance, drawing comic strips for many of the small publishers who sprang up shortly after the war.
He was soon drawing for the major publishers. His most fondly remembered strips include Strongbow the Mighty in Mickey Mouse Weekly, Wulf the Briton in Express Weekly, Wrath of the Gods in Boys' World, Tales of the Trigan Empire and Johnny Frog in Eagle and Stingray in TV Century 21.
Embleton also provided the illustrations that appeared in the title credits for the Captain Scarlet TV series, and dozens of paintings for prints and newspaper strips. A meticulous artist, his illustrations appeared in Look and Learn for many years, amongst them the historical series Roger?s Rangers.
Oh, Wicked Wanda! was a British full-colour satirical and saucy adult comic strip, written by Frederic Mullally and drawn by Ron Embleton. The strip regularly appeared in Penthouse magazine from 1973 to 1980 and was followed by Embleton's equally saucy dark humoured Merry Widow strip, written by Penthouse founder Bob Guccione.
Less well known, however, was his equally energetic career as an oil painter. In fact, being a painter had been his life's ambition ? his 'driving force', according to his daughter Gillian. It was only his remarkable success as an illustrator that in the end largely diverted him from the painter's path.
Embleton died on 13 February 1988 at the relatively young age of 57 after a lifetime of truly prodigious artistic output of remarkable quality.
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