TW429385 A Scene from Walter Scott\'s \'The Talisman\', c.1840-60 (oil on canvas) by Landseer, Charles (1799-1879); 102.1x127.3 cm; Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear, UK; (add.info.: A scene from the novel \'The Talisman\' by Sir Walter Scott has provided the subject for this picture. King Richard the Lionheart is shown sitting up on his sick bed during a campaign in Palestine. His wife, Queen Berengaria, is pleading for the life of the Scottish knight Sir Kenneth, who had been sentenced to death for deserting his post (to read a message Queen Berengaria had brought him). Walter Scott\'s romantic stories were very popular with Victorian artists. Charles Landseer was one of a family of London painters;); 穢 Sunderland Museums ; English, out of copyright.