Location: [url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/paintings/gallery2/blackbrunswicker.aspx]Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool[/url]
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This painting was inspired in part by the exploits of the Black Brunswickers, a German volunteer corps of the Napoleonic Wars, during the Waterloo campaign and in part by the contrasts of black broadcloth and pearl-w...
Kate Perugini, the daughter of Charles Dickens, was used as a model for the woman seen in the picture.The male model was an anonymous soldier who died shortly afterwards. The two models never actually met.
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