Walter Fane’s Mountains Near Shanghai

A painting titled Mountains Near Shanghai by Major-General Walter Fane C.B. (British, 1828–1885) – though I have no exact date or which mountains these are I’m afraid – and I’m not entirely sure it isn’t mis-labelled. I assume ‘near’ means at least a few hours away.

Anyway, Fane was a British Indian Army officer on the North West frontier. In 1860 he raised the irregular cavalry force of Fane’s Horse to fight in China during the Second Opium War. He took part in the looting of Peking in October 1860 and the burning on the Yangmingyuan (Old Summer Palace)…. for which he was awarded the Companion of the Order of Bath (hopefully those people involved with China who accept British “honours” and gee-gaws think upon that!). And apparently he still found time to do a bit of painting…