After R. Jefferson (19th century). A Victorian bronze relief panel of the triumphal entry of the...

After R. Jefferson (19th century). A Victorian bronze relief panel of the triumphal entry of the Duke of Wellington into Madrid 1812, by Elkington & Co., titled 'MADRID' and 'THE EVENTS OF WAR ARE IN THE HANDS OF PROVIDENCE ALONE', signed 'R. Jefferson', and inscribed 'ART UNION' and 'EXECUTED BY ELKINGTON MASON & CO.', 13¾ x 33in (35 x 84cm), in a moulded oak frame.

Jefferson exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1853-1860. In 1853 he won the Art Union prize for the best plaster model in low relief illustrating an event in the military life of the late Duke of Wellington who had died in 1852. The Art Journal in 1853 described the relief: 'It is a processional composition, full of figures of every degree, from the full round to the lowest relief. It is throughout extremely spirited and extremely successful in national characteristic'.