Ingram employed leading artists of the day to illustrate social events, news stories, and towns and cities. The whole spectrum of Victorian Britain was recorded pictorially in "The Illustrated London News" for many decades; special events were important to its success. The magazine did very well during the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the edition that reported the funeral of the Duke of Wellington in 1852 sold between 150,000 and 250,000 copies, according to various accounts. Illustrations came from all corners of the globe. By 1855, Ingram was using colour and had artists in Great Britain and continental Europe racing to the scene of stories to capture the drama in print. The Crimean War caused a further boost to sales. By 1863, after Ingram's death, "The Illustrated London News" was selling over 300,000 copies a week, far higher than other journals. For example, newspapers such as the "Daily News" sold 6,000 copies at this time, and even the largest-selling newspaper, "The Times", only sold 70,000 copies.