Suspense Finish:Single Cross country horse riding in

Cross country horse riding in Beaconsfield

Original is oil on canvas 63

'HMS 'The Victory' at Portsmouth'

9th May 1956

Bust of John Colet who founded St Paul's School in 1512

Suspense Finish:Single Cross country horse riding in'Suspense', 1871. Britannia waits anxiously outside the door of the Prince of Wales's sick chamber. Since Prince Albert's death some ten years earlier, Queen Victoria's continued withdrawal from public life had attracted increasing criticism, especially as demands on the public purse to support her large family had continued to grow. The Republican movement was growing vociferous until, late in 1871, the Prince of Wales was stricken with typhoid