The Claremont Collection of Historical Medals

Benjamin West, 1866, a silver cliché of the rev. of the medal by W. Wilson for the Art Union of London, five soldiers surrounding the dying figure of General Wolfe, 55mm (cf. BHM 2862; cf. E 1589). Fields lightly brushed, otherwise extremely fine £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Claremont Collection of Historical Medals.

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When he was building Claremont, Lord Clive commissioned a large painting from Benjamin West of ‘Clive Receiving the Grant of the Diwani of Bengal from the Mughal Emperor, Shah ‘Alam’, which was intended to be hung in the Eating Room as part of a set of similar pictures celebrating Clive’s annexation of Bengal