Courtesy Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
Allegory: HRH The Prince Regent Awakening The Spirit of Brighton
Rex Whistler
- Art Funded
- 1945
- Dimensions
- 157 x 246 cm
- Vendor
- House's owner (where the mural was painted)
Allegory in the forms of a winged cupid and a sleeping nymph respectively.
Painted directly on wallpaper; removed and remounted on canvas. Dated 5-7 June 1944.
Provenance
Originally a mural painted directly onto the wall-paper of a house in Brighton whilst it was requisitioned by Whistler's battalion of the Welsh Guards during the Second World War.