Return of the Sword

[Jimmy]

I was down at the Beamish Open Air Museum over the last few days in the North fo England. I noticed a painting in one of the walls of the living room in a miner's cottage in the Pit Village area of the museum. It was entitled '' Return of the Sword'' and features a kilted soldier returning a sword to a soldier's widow. I have tried to find info on this painting but haven't come up with anything. At the foot of the painting it says that the painting was supplied by James Palliser, a merchant from Blackhill in Glasgow

[Silent Raven]

Well im not really much help, as i am no art buff by any means. but its an awesome painting and i hope you do find some info on it.

[McClef]

Interesting painting.

The widow is clearly well to do and her dress and veil seem to match those that Queen Victoria wore very closely.

That is not to say that it is her, merely that there is a resemblance.

[Pleater]

There was a series on TV called - I think the 1900 house, where a family lived in a house converted back to what it would have been like in the year 1900. I think it might have been in Leyton, or Leytonstone in London, England.

On the wall in one of the rooms there was a print of 'Return of the sword' - it might have been the same one which found its way to Beamish.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Ancienne Alliance]

This is a great painting ! Thank you for sharing it.


Best,

Robert

[Jimmy]

Usually you can find and trace things fairly well on the net but there seems to be no record of this painting or artist. I have tried to trace the merchant whose name is at the bottom of the frame but no luck here either.
Now I'm annoyed that no more info is available perhaps the next time I'm at Beamish, I may ask about it

[Downunder Kilt]

From the Beamish Open Air Museum site they state "Calendar advertisement for James Palliser, grocer of Park Road, Blackhill, including print of painting 'The Return of the Sword'. Size 535 x 765mm. See 74603 for b/w."

Four years ago, a person requested the same info from ask yahoo and no info could be found. Hopefully the resourses of the forum can get the matter sorted.

[OC Richard]

I found myself trying to figure out which regiment that fellow is supposed to be from.

Seaforth Highlanders, I guess, if that tartan is intended to be MacKenzie. The red & white hose and buff facings agree.

But spats that tall were only worn by The Gordon Highlanders.

His sword slings are quite long, so that his sword seems to drag on the ground.

[McClef]

It appears that others also have sought the answer:

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...4131927AACSd1x

[sylviamcbeal@yahoo.co.uk]

I found myself trying to figure out which regiment that fellow is supposed to be from.

Seaforth Highlanders, I guess, if that tartan is intended to be MacKenzie. The red & white hose and buff facings agree.

But spats that tall were only worn by The Gordon Highlanders.

His sword slings are quite long, so that his sword seems to drag on the ground.

Hi ,My husband and I have been looking for info on picture of Return of the sword, we was playing our pipes for the new year approx 15 yrs ago and we was given the print (believed to be a print) by a man in Suffolk England, also a framed certificate aswell.
He aquired them he told us from an elderly gentleman and the certificate had a connection he believed with the print.
The certificate is of Royal ancediluvian order of Buffaoes,Grand lodge of England. Le Bonheur Lodge No.6591
and stating This is to certify that brother George A Horsley has been initiated into the buffaloism, on 16th Oct 1928 ,I will take a picture of both.
These pictures both hung in the house of George A Horsley and the man who gave us them said G A Horsley was in The Gordon Highlanders (he believed)
We will try and find out more info,It is good that we know someone else has seen the picture, return of the sword
I will post any info I find on this,Best wishes Sylvia and Martin McBeal