Edward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy Size:L: 75 x 60cm 'Taking the (Irish) Bull by

'Taking the (Irish) Bull by the Horns'

Kathy Kirby

Depicts one of a series of naval battle re-enactments which took place in Hyde Park as part of the peace celebrations of 1814

The Poor Man's Friend'

He used decisive and brutal methods to quell the rebellions and corruption that had become endemic within the empire

Edward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy Size:L: 75 x 60cm 'Taking the (Irish) Bull byEdward Armitage, professor and lecturer on painting to the Royal Academy, 1878. A historical painter, Armitage was influential in the movements for the restoration of fresco painting in England, and the decoration of the Houses of Parliament with historical designs. He became a Royal Academician in 1872, and became the Academy's professor and lecturer on painting in 1875. Armitage was a great collector of insects. From Men of Mark: a gallery of