BLUECOAT BOYS 1877
BLUECOAT BOYS 1877

Artist: Eyre Crowe
Collection: Christ's Hospital School, Horsham, Surrey

Crowe's painting shows the distinctive uniform of the boys of Christ's Hospital School in Newgate, London. Mary Emma Sercombe's father Henry Auton Giffard Sercombe (1838-c.1861) and his first cousin Thomas Filmore Sercombe (b.1848) were both Bluecoat Boys at Newgate.

BLUECOAT BOYS 1877

Artist: Eyre Crowe
Collection: Christ's Hospital School, Horsham, Surrey

Crowe's painting shows the distinctive uniform of the boys of Christ's Hospital School in Newgate, London. Mary Emma Sercombe's father Henry Auton Giffard Sercombe (1838-c.1861) and his first cousin Thomas Filmore Sercombe (b.1848) were both Bluecoat Boys at Newgate.