PAINTINGS BY URSULA BOYLAN O'GARA

 THE  KING'S  MESSENGER - 2001

     Based on the oil painting by Richard Beavis (1824-96)

Commission 

Oil on canvas 20ins x 30ins

 

British photographer Vincent St. Lawrence Haslam commissioned this oil painting.  His life-long friend, Commander Keith Simmons, R.N. (Rtd.) was a member of the Corps of Queen's Messengers.   My interpretation is somewhat different to the painting by Richard Beavis. I have painted an after-blizzard scene as opposed to a storm scene in the original.   The  Beavis horse was black. 

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