No.12
The Last Day in the Old Home (1862)
This is the artist's most famous painting. "The Last Day in the Old Home" shows the feckless squire after gambling away his family's inheritance. The man portrayed is Colonel John Leslie Toke (1839–1911) who was a friend of Martineau and was painted at his country home Godinton House in Ashford, Kent. In an odd way life came to imitate art, for J. L. Toke inherited the house in 1866 but lost it after four hundred years of the Toke family living there.
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