Henry Courtney Selous

Henry Courtney Selous (b. Panton Street, Haymarket, London 1803; d. Beaworthy, Devon, 24 September 1890)

He married on 4 March 1837 Emily Elizabeth (d. 1879), daughter of the successful miniature painter Henry Pierce Boneat at St Pancras Parish Church and they had four daughters.

He painted historical pieces for the rest of his career, for example Cassio Wounded (1874, location untraced), as well as such works as The Opening of The Great Exhibition (see works, below) recording contemporary events.

Works The opening of The Great Exhibition, by Queen Victoria on 1 May 1851 depicts the Archbishop of Canterbury offering the benedictory prayer at the opening ceremony. Sir Henry Cole, the first director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, stands in the group on the right. Jerusalem in her Grandeur The Glorious Charge of the Heavy Brigade depicts the Inniskilling Dragoons and the Scots Greys during the classic cavalry charge at Balaclava, 1855, location untraced. 22 original pen-and-ink drawings to John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, London, 1844 or earlier, 22 original pen-and-ink drawings on wove paper