PAINTING IN THE BOOK
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| Charles West Cope |
The
large painting depicting “Lt. Cameron’s welcome home from his explorations in Africa” was painted in 1877 by Charles West Cope RA.
This
fine painting was exhibited around the country and then sold to the Mildmay
family in Shoreham. When this family
left the village in 1950, the painting was gifted to the Church
of St. Peter and St. Paul in Shoreham, Kent, England, where it may be viewed
hanging on the wall.
On 5th
April, 1876, Lt. Verney Lovett Cameron, leader of the expedition to find Livingstone,
arrived back home to the village
of Shoreham in Kent. He was given a hero’s welcome. In the painting he can be seen standing in a
chaise beside his mother, while the train which had brought him to Shoreham
steams away along the valley. The horses
had been uncoupled from the chaise, and village men are pulling it to the
church. Cameron’s father, the local Vicar, waits by the church door.
Charles
West Cope was born in Leeds on 28 July, 1811 and died in Bournemouth
on 21 August, 1890. He was a member of
the Royal Academy of Arts.
This exciting
Shoreham painting was one of his last.
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| Charles Cope |
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