Home Again, 1858

Oil on canvas signed and dated lower right ‘H. O’Neil 1860’, by Henry Nelson O’Neil (1817-1880), 1860.

Soldiers disembark from a troopship at Gravesend, on their return from the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859). About 40,000 British troops were sent to India, more than had been mobilized for the Crimea, to suppress the mutiny among the Indian troops of the East India Company’s Bengal Army.