Oil and Acrylic Mediums
To the Victor Belong the Spoils (Robert Boscawen)
Oil on canvas
30"x40"
2016
Robert Boscawen (1923-2013)
He was commissioned in the Coldstream Guards and was sent to the cavalry wing of Sandhurst to train as a tank commander. In 1944, his unit was among the first to to enter Brussels. In 1945 he was seriously wounded and sustained disfiguring burns when an anti-tank shell pierced his tank. He would later go on to become a far right MP in the British Conservative Party in Parliament.