Art by Henry Nelson O'Neil
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Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817, Russia - 1880) was an historical genre
painter and minor Victorian writer. He worked primarily with historical
and literary subjects, but his best-known paintings dealt with the
Indian Mutiny. Eastward, Ho!, dated August 1857 but exhibited the
following year, depicts the British troops embarking for India. A
second painting, Home Again, (1859) shows the troops returning to
England. He also had popular successes with romantic scenes portraying
the deaths of Mozart and Raphael, depicted as though mentally
transported to heaven by their own religious art. In The Last Moments
of Mozart the dying composer listens to singers performing part of his
Requiem. The Last Moments of Raphael shows the painter contemplating
the unseen figure of Christ in his Transfiguration.
O'Neil was a member of The Clique, a group of artists in the 1840s who,
like the later Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, met regularly to discuss and
criticize one another's works. The other members of The Clique were
Augustus Egg, Alfred Elmore, Richard Dadd, William Powell Frith, John
Phillip, Edward Matthew Ward.
Art by Henry Nelson O'Neil
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Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817, Russia - 1880) was an historical genre
painter and minor Victorian writer. He worked primarily with historical
and literary subjects, but his best-known paintings dealt with the
Indian Mutiny. Eastward, Ho!, dated August 1857 but exhibited the
following year, depicts the British troops embarking for India. A
second painting, Home Again, (1859) shows the troops returning to
England. He also had popular successes with romantic scenes portraying
the deaths of Mozart and Raphael, depicted as though mentally
transported to heaven by their own religious art. In The Last Moments
of Mozart the dying composer listens to singers performing part of his
Requiem. The Last Moments of Raphael shows the painter contemplating
the unseen figure of Christ in his Transfiguration.
O'Neil was a member of The Clique, a group of artists in the 1840s who,
like the later Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, met regularly to discuss and
criticize one another's works. The other members of The Clique were
Augustus Egg, Alfred Elmore, Richard Dadd, William Powell Frith, John
Phillip, Edward Matthew Ward.
Most of the Clique opposed the Pre-Raphaelites, but O'Neil was the most
virulent in his condemnation of the movement, attacking them in both
paintings and writings. These included his futuristic fantasy 2000
Years Hence, which portrayed Britain in the year 3967 as a frozen
wasteland excavated by an archaeologist from New Zealand. The
archaeologist uncovers evidence of the decline of British culture in
the nineteenth century, allowing O'Neil to vent his own distinctly
reactionary political views, predicting dire consequences of the Reform
Act of 1867.
