side. It was exhibited at Westminster Hall in 1846, in competition for the decorations of the Houses of Parliament, but was unsuccessful. He visited Germany and France in 1847. In his final years Sir William lived at 72 Great King Street, a substantial Georgian townhouse over five storeys, in Edinburgh's Second New Town. He died of Bronchitis at his Edinburgh home on 23 February 1850. At the time of his death Sir William was engaged on a large picture of the Battle of Bannockburn. He is buried in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh against the north wall of the original cemetery backing onto the late Victorian extension. Works Russian Peasants keeping their Holiday (1809) Bashkirs (1814, Hermitage) Frontier Guard (1814, Hermitage) The Sale of Circassian Captives to a Turkish Bashaw (1816) Tartar Robbers dividing Spoil (1817, Tate Gallery) John Knox admonishing Mary, Queen of Scots (1823) The Regent Murray shot by Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh (1825, Woburn Abbey) The Black Dwarf (1827, National Gallery of Scotland) Lord Byron in a Turkish Fisherman's House after swimming across the Hellespont (1831) Slave Market (1838, National Gallery of Scotland) The Signing of the National Covenant in Greyfriars Kirkyard (Edinburgh City Arts Centre) Heroism and Humanity (Robert the Bruce with soldiers) (1840 Kelvingrove Museum) The Recovery of the stolen Child (1841, Aberdeen, art gallery) Battle of Prestonpans (1842, private collection) Peter the Great teaching his Subjects the Art of Shipbuilding (1845, formerly in the Winter Palace of the Hermitage, now lost) Waterloo, June 18, 1815 (1843, His Grace Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, Apsley House) The Duke of Wellington - en route to Quatre Bras (1844, private collection) The Battle of Waterloo (1845, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst) Battle of Bannockburn (Royal Scottish Academy, on loan to the Wallace Monument, Stirling) See also List of Orientalist artists Orientalism References Attribution: Further reading External links William Allan online (Artcyclopedia) World Art Link Collection on William Allan Significant Scots: Sir William Allan. Extensive biography. Overview of Sir William Allan Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections 1782 births 1850 deaths 19th-century Scottish painters Scottish male painters 19th-century painters of historical subjects Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art Artists from Edinburgh Orientalism Orientalist painters People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh Royal Scottish Academicians Royal Academicians Burials at the Dean Cemetery Scottish expatriates in Russia