The Wounded Comrade
Nicholas Shiels
1884–89
Medium
Brush and brown wash
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/4 x 15 5/8 in. (28.6 x 39.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Alphonse Legros, 1892
Accession Number
92.13.24
Tags
SoldiersIllnessMen
About the Artist
Nicholas Shiels · 1800–1900
**Nicholas Shiels: A Victorian Genre Painter of Soldiers and Scenes** Nicholas Shiels was a British artist active in the late nineteenth century, particularly during the 1880s, when he exhibited works in Scotland before traveling to Australia. Little is known about his early life and artistic training, as biographical details remain scarce beyond his professional activities in Edinburgh and beyon...