The Kidnapping Of Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl Of Leven (1580-1661), 19th Century Edgar Bundy

The Kidnapping of Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven (1580-1661), 19th Century by Edgar BUNDY (1862-1922) sells for $35,000 A large 19th century English Civil War scene depicting the Kidnapping of Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, oil on canvas by Edgar Bundy. An excellent quality and good condition example of the artist's English Civil War historical paintings. The scene depicts the arrest of the shot Leslie, with his distinctive blond hair and white court dress, by Cromwell's men after the Battle of Dunbar and the subsequent dispossession of his property and possessions before his imprisonment in the Tower of London. Burned and presented in a good period frame. Dimensions: 47" x 37" framed approximately Artist Biography Bundy taught himself to paint. He became a member of the Royal Institute and the Royal Society of British Artists in 1891. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Suffolk Street and the New Water-Colour Society, London from 1881. He also exhibited works, including some historical scenes, at the Salon des Artistes Français, where he was awarded a second-class medal in 1909. He was commissioned to paint The Landing of the Canadians in France, 1915, for the Canadian War Memorial. Greenock Museum and Gallery Fund (McLean Mus. and AG): Scene in an Inn (1907, oil on canvas, 2 versions) Liverpool (Walker AG): The Word (1898, oil on canvas) London (Tate Collection): Morning at Sedgemoor (1905, oil on canvas) Melbourne: At Sedgmoor