Suspense Finish:Single A model ship lies abandoned

A model ship lies abandoned by the boy's feet

Bust of John Colet who founded St Paul's School in 1512

View of Woolwich with the River Thames in the distance

Original is oil on canvas 63

Suspense Finish:Single A model ship lies abandoned'Suspense', 1871. Britannia waits anxiously outside the door of the Prince of Wales's sick chamber. Since Prince Albert's death some ten years earlier, Queen Victoria's continued withdrawal from public life had attracted increasing criticism, especially as demands on the public purse to support her large family had continued to grow. The Republican movement was growing vociferous until, late in 1871, the Prince of Wales was stricken with typhoid