* O'Neil (Henry Nelson, 1817-1880). Study for Home Again, circa 1858, oil study on wood panel (mainly in brown, grey-white and pale blue with additional touches in pale yellow and red), for a section of the larger finished work, exhibited by the artist at the Royal Academy in 1859, 52 x 42 cm (20.5 x 16.5 ins), indistinct early auction stencil to verso '67S1 (or 6781), and old chalk number 360/1, attractive moulded gilt frameQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Private Collection, Devon. A preliminary oil study for a section of companion painting to Eastward Ho!, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1858. The painting depicts the homecoming of troops from the Indian Mutiny conflict of 1857-59. The composition of the present work is a very fine finished study of the main area of focus of the exhibited painting, with the figures and paraphernalia of the ship set out in comparable detail. The ship's rigging, and the depiction of another ship and other details in the distance are not present in this work.