Study for the ninth panel in a series of 11 large oil panels representing important events in the history of the Skinners’ Guild. Brangwyn executed this commission for the Hall of the Worshipful Company of Skinners, London between 1902-1909. The picture as finally painted (illustrated in Herbert Furst, The Decorative Art of Frank Brangwyn, 1924, p.72) shows a somewhat different composition. The two men in ceremonial robes and their page remain as in the sketch but the background was changed to show Officers of the Guild on the staircase and balcony and figures of pages, some bearing baskets of fruit, were added in the foreground left, behind whom the aged figure of General Monk is seen ascending the stairs.
