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This painting depicts the last moments of Henry Fauntleroy’s life from the view of a fellow prisoner, William Thompson. Henry Fauntleroy, framed in the doorway, was one of the most notorious criminals of the 19th century. As a banker and fraudster, he soon became a condemned man after it was discovered he’d been stealing money from the bank in which he worked. Captured here in his final moments while an estimated 100,000 Londoners awaited his arrival to the scaffold - it was also one of the last