Eventide: A Scene in the Westminster Union

Eventide: A Scene at the Westminster Union is an 1878 work by the social realist painter Hubert von Herkomer.

It is considered a companion picture to Herkomer's The Last Muster, which is held by the Lady Lever Art Gallery, also on Merseyside.

It is based on three drawings that Herkomer made for The Graphic magazine, particularly his 1877 engraving "'Old Age – A Study at the Westminster Union".

There are also prints on the wall (including one of the main figures from Herkomer's The Last Muster: the elderly Chelsea pensioner checking the pulse of his neighbouring veteran, presumed dead, at a church service).

Most of the women are sewing, while one with a straw hat has poured tea into a saucer to drink, and another has a bible resting in her lap.

Hubert von Herkomer , Eventide – A Scene at the Westminster Union , 1878, Walker Art Gallery
Herkomer's 1875 painting, The Last Muster , Lady Lever Art Gallery