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Denis Dighton

 Drawing - The Telegraph And Part Of The French Position. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Water by Denis Dighton

The Telegraph And Part Of The French Position. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Waterloo

 Drawing - Farme De La Haie Sainte From Mount St. John. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Waterlo by Denis Dighton

Farme De La Haie Sainte From Mount St. John. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Waterloo

 Drawing - Hougoumont The House And Farme Du Gourman From The Right. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Batt by Denis Dighton

Hougoumont The House And Farme Du Gourman From The Right. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle of Waterloo

 Drawing - Farme Of Du Gourman No 2. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Waterloo by Denis Dighton

Farme Of Du Gourman No 2. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Waterloo

 Drawing - Farme Du Gourman From The Right. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Waterloo by Denis Dighton

Farme Du Gourman From The Right. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Waterloo

 Drawing - The House Of Du Gourman From The Wood On The Left. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of W by Denis Dighton

The House Of Du Gourman From The Wood On The Left. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Waterloo

 Drawing - La Bella Alliance From The Hight Road. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Waterloo by Denis Dighton

La Bella Alliance From The Hight Road. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Waterloo

 Drawing - La Belle Alliance. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Waterloo by Denis Dighton

La Belle Alliance. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Waterloo

 Drawing - The Belle Alliance And Neuvcour. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Waterloo by Denis Dighton

The Belle Alliance And Neuvcour. Nine Landscapes From The Field Of The Battle Of Waterloo

Denis Dighton (1792 – 8 August 1827) was an English painter, best known for his military portraits and battle scenes.

Life

Denis Dighton was the son of the caricaturist Robert Dighton and a younger brother was Richard Dighton. He enrolled as a student of the Royal Academy in 1807 and exhibited 17 pictures there between 1811 and 1825.[1]

He enjoyed the patronage of the Prince of Wales, who had been a close friend of his mother. Through the influence of the prince, he received a commission in the army in 1811,[2] however, he soon returned to civilian life. By 1814 he had received the title of Military Painter to H.R.H. the Prince Regent. The prince sent Dighton to the Southern Netherlands just before the Battle of Waterloo, and seems to have bought all his exhibited pictures.[3] Dighton visited the Waterloo battlefield five days after the victory and executed nine paintings of the battle.

He fell from royal favour when his intermediary with the Prince Regent, Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, lost his place in the royal household, to be replaced by Sir William Knighton. After this loss of patronage, Dighton became mentally ill; he moved with his wife and son to Brittany, where he lived supported by the Artists' Benevolent Fund until his death at the age of 35 on 8 August 1827.[1]

Dighton is mostly known for his paintings of battle scenes especially depicting the Peninsular War and Waterloo; he also painted a scene of Nelson being shot at the Battle of Trafalgar.

He married a sister of Augustus Earle, Phoebe Earle, herself a working artist and exhibitor at the Royal Academy who became Flower Painter in Ordinary to Queen Adelaide, in 1812[4] and they had two sons.

Paintings

The Storming of San Sebastian on the 31st of August (1814 - National Trust for Scotland, Leith Hall)
Battle of Orthes (1815 - Marquess of Anglesey)
The Battle of Waterloo (1816 - Marquess of Anglesey)
Waterloo - Charge of the Second Brigade of Cavalry (1817)[5]
Battle of Waterloo (attributed)
Greeks and Turks. Defeat of the Turks in the Defile of Klissura (1823 - Private Collection)

Works about

Carman, William Y., "The Battle of Waterloo by Denis Dighton," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. XLIII, No. 174, June 1965, pp. 55–59.
Harrington, Peter. (1993). British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700-1914. London: Greenhill

References

Pye, John (1845). Patronage of British art. London. p. 387. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
The London Gazette: no. 16504. p. 1300. 13 July 1811. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
Hichberger, J.W.M. (1991). Images of the Army: The Military in British Art, 1815-1914. Manchester University Press.
"England Marriages, 1538–1973," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKPR-PQ2: Denis Dighton and Phoebe Earle, 22 Jun 1812, Old Church, Saint Pancras, London, England, reference ; FHL microfilm 598,180. Accessed 11 December 2015
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