"Ensign E G Hellewell XXth
Regiment"
I am currently engaged in research to help an American trace one
of his family, thought to be with the XXth when they had two Battalions
in Bermuda and were the Garrison Regiment from 1841 to 1847.
As part of that research I came across the name of an Ensign by the
name of E G Hellewell.
He had sailed with the XXth main body on the ship " Cornwall"
and arrived in Bermuda on the 1st November 1841.
I later tried to find pics of the various locations in Bermuda where
the XXth had served and to my surprise came across this in a sale
of fine art.
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COMPLETE SET OF THIRTEEN VIEWS FROM SKETCHES BY EDMUND HALLEWELL
Finely coloured lithographs heightened with gum Arabic, by W. Parrott,
circa 1848, the rare set of thirteen plates, bright fresh impressions,
trimmed and mounted on card (some watermarked J Whatman, Turkey Mill
1846) as issued, in generally good condition apart from occasional slight
foxing and soiling, in addition to some soiling on original mounts.
Uniformly framed.
Six views form a panorama of the islands in the Great Sound seen from
a hill west of Gibbs Hill lighthouse; four form a panorama from a hill
on Spanish Point looking to the Great Sound with the shores of Warwick,
Southampton and Sandys parishes beyond; and three views from near St
David’s lighthouse form a panorama looking over Smith’s Island
to the town and parish of St Georges.
Edmund Gilling Hallewell (1822 – 1869), who was well known as ‘Lieut:
& Adjt XX Regt.,’ was commissioned in 1839, in the 20th or
East Devons. This battalion was part of the Bermuda garrison between
1846-47.
Hallewell was an unsuccessful candidate for the New Society of Painters
in Watercolours in 1850, by which time he was a captain in the 20th
Regiment. He gained his majority in 1854, transferred to the 28th or
North Gloucestershire and served in the Crimea as Deputy Acting Quartermaster
General of the Light Division at Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol. Promoted
took place to colonel in 1860 and he retired from active service in1864.
In 1869, the year of his early death, he was Commandant of Sandhurst.
He lived at Stroud in England, and between 1850 and 1853 exhibited landscapes
in the Royal Academy, British Institution and at the Society of British
Artists.
The Bermuda views, of which very few sets now remain, were executed
as a test of the surveying skills of young military officers. They give
a fascinating impression of the island at a key point in its history.
$65,000
Another fascinating XXth Officer for our records!
Joe Eastwood
http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/object.asp?maker=HALLEWELLEG&object=711112&row=0
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