British cavalry lancers, France Size:XL: 100 x 75cm in both cases records that

in both cases records that still stand today

Behind the sitter are screens decorated in green and gold with sunlight slanting into the painting

Peter Nicholas

Dupont pinxt

Five figures of a land snail shell discovered upon old bricks and stones near Bullstrode in Buckinghamshire

British cavalry lancers, France Size:XL: 100 x 75cm in both cases records thatBritish cavalry lancers, France, 1914. Dismounted cavalrymen of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) walking alongside their horses and carrying their lances, watched by French civilians. Machine guns, artillery and the nature of the terrain quickly rendered the use of cavalry obsolete on the Western Front, particularly when the conflict became one of trench warfare.