GENERAL WILLIAM NAPIER - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 12/20/1851 - HFSID 24328
Price: $460.00
WILLIAM NAPIER. ALS: "W. Napier", 3p, 4¼x7. No place, dated
in pencil in another hand "Dec. 20, 1851". To George Jones Eqr. In
part: "I see you have paid the last duty to poor Turner. I was grieved at
his death both as a man & an artist. His works will now I suppose be
understood and a new School be established in this country..." JOSEPH M.W.
TURNER, recognized by many as the greatest landscape painter of the 19th
century, had died on December 19, 1851. Sir WILLIAM NAPIER (1785-1860),
was one of four brothers distinguished in their military service to the British
Empire (three generals and a naval captain). He served in Portugal and Spain
(1809-1811) during the Napoleonic Wars, refusing to leave the battlefield
despite wounds which would afflict him for life. He commanded a regiment at
Waterloo (1815). He later served as Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
(1842-1847). Commissioned lieutenant general, Napier subsequently
distinguished himself as a military analyst, author of History of the
War in the Peninsula and of several defenses the conduct of his brother
Charles Napier, conqueror of Sindh Province in India. Creased. Lightly
soiled. Folds, vertical fold touches "W". Pinhead-size hole lower blank margin
of first page.
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