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The remnants of an army, Jellalabad (sic), January 13, 1842, better known as Remnants of an Army, is an 1879 oil-on-canvas painting by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler. It depicts William Brydon, assistant surgeon in the Bengal Army, arriving at the gates of Jalalabad in January 1842. The walls of Jalalabad loom over a desolate plain and riders ...
The Third of May 1808 in Madrid (commonly known as The Third of May 1808) [1] and also known, in Spanish, as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid or Los fusilamientos de la montaña del Príncipe Pío, [2] or Los fusilamientos del tres de mayo, is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
La Mujer en la Revolución Mexicana. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana, 1961. Reséndez, Andrés (April 1995). "Battleground Women: Soldaderas and Female Soldiers in the Mexican Revolution". The Americas. 51 (4): 525– 553. doi: 10.2307/1007679. JSTOR 1007679. Ruiz-Alfaro, Sofia (2013).
Mary Riter was born in Culross, Ontario (now part of South Bruce, ON), on 7 September 1867.While there has been confusion regarding the year of her birth with scholars, curators, and archivists speculating that she was born in 1874, 1868, or 1867, Irene Gammel’s 2020 book I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton uses Census data to document that the accurate ...
La mitrailleuse, 1915. La Mitrailleuse is a painting by British Futurist artist C. R. W. Nevinson, made in 1915 while he was on honeymoon leave from service as an ambulance driver with the RAMC on the Western Front in the First World War.
Soldiers' wives traveled with armies far back into history, and, in the years before 1700, armies often had more women and children than soldiers. [3] By 1700, there was a clear category of women accompanying the French army, composed of soldiers' legitimate wives who served as vivandières.
William Etty, 1823, shortly before The Combat was painted. William Etty was born in 1787, the son of a York baker and miller. [1] He began as an apprentice printer in Hull. [2] On completing his seven-year apprenticeship he moved at the age of 18 to London "with a few pieces of chalk crayons", [3] with the intention of becoming a history painter in the tradition of the Old Masters. [4]
Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers is an oil painting by the French artist Paul Delaroche, depicting Charles I of England taunted by the victorious soldiers of Oliver Cromwell after the Second English Civil War, prior to his execution in 1649. Completed in 1836, it is thought to be one of Delaroche's greatest masterpieces.