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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.
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.
White horses on display on Upper Grand Canal Street, Dublin in 1967. In Dublin city, the display of a white plasterwork horse in the fanlight of a door was believed to denote a household that was Protestant and loyal to the United Kingdom. The horse was a depiction of William's white horse, which he rode during the Battle of the Boyne. [2] [3]
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English: Arms of Viscount Boyne. Quarterly: 1st and 4th argent, between two chevronels a cinquefoil, the whole between three cross crosslets fitchee sable (for Russell); 2nd and 3rd gules, three cinquefoils pierced ermine (for Hamilton).
Eventually he took up with Jan van Huchtenburg, whereupon he devoted himself to painting horses. [ 1 ] According to the RKD he was first became a member of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke in 1678, and in 1690 he accompanied William III of England 's army, where he painted the Battle of the Boyne first-hand. [ 2 ]