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The Battle of the Boyne is a 1778 historical painting by the Anglo-American artist Benjamin West.It portrays the Battle of the Boyne which took place in Ireland in 1690. West's depiction of William of Orange on his white horse became the iconic image of liberation from Catholic Ireland; the painting was widely copied and distributed throughout the nineteenth century.
The battle was overshadowed in Britain by the defeat of an Anglo-Dutch fleet by the French on the previous day at the Battle of Beachy Head, a far more serious event in the short term; [47] but on the continent the Battle of the Boyne was treated as an important victory. Its importance lay in the fact that it was the first proper victory for ...
The Battle of the Boyne, by Jan Wyck, c.1693.. As the son of a fairly successful artist, it is likely Wyck was painting and drawing from a young age. Enjoying the patronage of the Duke of Ormond Wyck was known as the best landscape painter in London by 1686.
Portrait of Charles Dickens is an 1839 portrait painting by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise depicting the English novelist Charles Dickens. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Dickens debut novel The Pickwick Papers had been a popular success, which he had followed up with Nicholas Nickelby .
In Northern Ireland, murals in Unionist or Loyalist areas of the country often depict William and his success at the Battle of the Boyne. The first mural of William was painted in Derry in the 1920s and depicted the Battle of the Boyne and his ending of the siege of Derry. King William is the most common theme of Loyalist murals in Northern ...
A Lost Cause: Flight of King James II after the Battle of the Boyne is an 1888 history painting by the English artist Andrew Carrick Gow. [1] [2] It depicts a scene from 1690 during the Williamite War in Ireland when James II sailed for France from the port of Kinsale following his Irish Army's defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
A Child's History of England is a book by English author Charles Dickens. It first appeared in serial form in Household Words , running from 25 January 1851 to 10 December 1853. Dickens also published the work in book form in three volumes: the first volume on 20 December 1851, the second on 25 December 1852 and the third on 24 December 1853. [ 1 ]
The former Boyne Obelisk (c.1890), Oldbridge, County Louth, Ireland. Here below is placed the body of Frederick, Duke of Schomberg, killed at the Boyne, A.D. 1690. The dean and the chapter fervently sought, again and again, that the heirs of the Duke see to the erection of a monument in memory of (their) parent.