Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs
Frederic William Burton · 1864
Frederic William Burton
Ireland · 1816–1900
Sir Frederic William Burton was an Irish Victorian painter, mainly in watercolour, and curator who was the third director of the National Gallery, London for 20 years from 1874. Burton's best-known watercolours, The Aran Fisherman's Drowned Child (1841) and The Meeting on the Turret Stairs (1864; also known as Hellelil and Hildebrand) are in the National Gallery of Ireland. Meeting on the Turret Stairs was voted by the Irish public as Ireland's favourite painting in 2012 from among 10 works shortlisted by critics.
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Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs
Frederic William Burton · 1864
National Gallery of Ireland
Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs is a watercolour painting from 1864 by Frederic William Burton. It was painted in London, where Burton later became Director of the National Gallery. The painting is housed in the National Gallery of Ireland, in Dublin.
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