John MacWhirter, ARA, HRSA, Scottish painter Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Mr G Hemel with passenger

Mr G Hemel with passenger

but is best known for the 'Endurance' expedition of 1914-1916 when the ship became trapped in the ice and Shackleton and five colleagues made an epic journey to South Georgia to seek rescue

Aerial view of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park which housed the Great Exhibition in 1851

Two soldiers taking up position overlooking the Valley of Inkerman in the Crimea

John MacWhirter, ARA, HRSA, Scottish painter Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Mr G Hemel with passengerJohn MacWhirter, ARA, HRSA, Scottish painter, 1883. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (London, 1876 1883).