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The subject is taken from Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, chapter XXXI. At the siege of the castle of Torquilstone the beautiful Rebecca, daughter of Isaac the Jew, is abducted by the Norman Templar, Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert. Ulrica, an old Saxon woman who had set fire to the castle, exalts in her vengeful fury at the top of the distant tower. The picture was a popular success at the Paris Salon of 1831. A preparatory sketch is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans.

The Wallace Collection

London

Title

Rebecca and Brian de Bois-Guilbert

Date

1828

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 88.5 x W 116 cm

Accession number

P279

Acquisition method

acquired by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford by 1846; bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, 1897

Work type

Painting

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