Lot 1635 , Charles Turner after Charles Lock Eastlake, mezzotint, 'Napoleon on the Bellerophone', published c.1816, visible sheet 64 x 47cm, period maple frame

Charles Turner after Charles Lock Eastlake, mezzotint, 'Napoleon on the Bellerophone', published c.1816, visible sheet 64 x 47cm, period maple frame
£100-150
In this full-length portrait of Napoleon, Charles Lock Eastlake represents the deposed Emperor, dressed in the green uniform of a colonel of the “chasseurs à cheval de la Garde”, on the bridge of Bellerophon which he had boarded on 15 July 1815, ultimately putting his fate in the hands of the British Prince Regent, after a failed attempt to reach the United States.

Sold for £460