/r/BattlePaintings

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This is a subreddit is about paintings depicting battles or other historically important events.

We have been running a couple of years now and we would like to thank everybody who has helped make us what we are.


This is a subreddit is about paintings depicting battles or other historically important events.

Wikimedia Commons is a great source for paintings.

If you wish to be an Approved Submitter Please message to Mods

Thank you

Rules

  1. Please only submit paintings! There are other subs for photos or videos.
  2. The title should contain the name of the artist, name of the Painting and the year of the event depicted.
  3. Please post the source and a link to information about the battle or historical background in the comments.
  4. Please only submit Paintings are Historical events, for anything else please use /r/ImaginaryBattlefields
  5. Please Be civil, so please no racism, bigotry, Abusive language ect...
  6. No Posting Paintings with watermarks. (Nobody wants to go to your dodgy website.
  7. No Paintings depicting the Russian Millitary following 1991.

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191

The 78th PA capturing the Confederate standard of the 26th TN, Battle of Stones River, Jan. 2, 1863

3 Comments
2023/12/04
02:21 UTC

125

A cavalry skirmish in a landscape, by Jan van Huchtenburg. Late 17th century or early 18th century

0 Comments
2023/12/03
11:53 UTC

96

General Rapp presents the enemy standards and prisoners taken after the Battle of Austerlitz to Emperor Napoleon, December 2nd, 1805. Painting by François Gérard (1810).

0 Comments
2023/12/03
04:13 UTC

203

Emperor Napoleon gives his orders to his Marshals before the Battle of Austerlitz. December 2nd, 1805. By Carle Vernet

6 Comments
2023/12/03
04:00 UTC

197

An Anglo-Dutch fleet destroyes a Franco-Spanish fleet at Vigo Bay, 1702, War of the Spanish Succession.

2 Comments
2023/12/02
11:12 UTC

100

Battle of Montes Claros on 17 June, 1665. Last major engagement during the Portuguese War of Restoration of Independence. By Roque Gameiro, 1917.

0 Comments
2023/12/01
12:41 UTC

572

2nd New Hampshire at the Peach Orchard, Battle of Gettysburg, 2 July 1863

5 Comments
2023/12/01
03:07 UTC

92

The Battle of Narva, November 30th, 1700. By Alexander von Kotzebue

1 Comment
2023/12/01
03:03 UTC

71

"Capture and Death of Sitting Bull" by Kurz & Allison, 1890

0 Comments
2023/11/30
18:00 UTC

127

Battle of Cocherel on May 16, 1364, by Charles-Philippe Larivière, 1839

2 Comments
2023/11/30
16:37 UTC

155

Boer War - A Battlefield Burial by Norman H. Hardy. [390 x 653]

3 Comments
2023/11/30
10:31 UTC

117

The death of the Portuguese knight Gonçalo Mendes da Maia, displayed at the public park of Beja, Portugal. By Jorge Colaço, 1940.

3 Comments
2023/11/29
21:47 UTC

269

The Dutch Red Lancers of the Imperial Guard during the retreat of the army of Napoleon from Russia, 1812. By Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht.

4 Comments
2023/11/28
16:30 UTC

140

Roman infantry fighting against Macedon at the Battle of Pydna by Angus McBride

1 Comment
2023/11/27
15:49 UTC

145

'Bring It On - The Black Douglas' by Andrew Hillhouse

1 Comment
2023/11/26
23:07 UTC

383

The Last Fight of the Dutch 3rd Regiment Grenadiers of the Guard, 1812, Battle of Krasnoi. By Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht

6 Comments
2023/11/26
19:47 UTC

7

Battle painter

Who is the best Napoleonic battles painter ?

5 Comments
2023/11/25
23:51 UTC

149

Rajputana Infantry 1910

2 Comments
2023/11/25
15:54 UTC

189

At Eylau in 1807, Captain Marbot, carrying Napoleon's orders, managed to reach the 14th of line, surrounded by the Russians, to tell them to pull back. But its commander judged it impossible and gave him their eagle standard to save it from capture. The regiment was annihilated. Unknown painter.

3 Comments
2023/11/25
09:47 UTC

57

A Changi working party by Murray Griffin.

1 Comment
2023/11/25
08:17 UTC

160

The CSS Virginia ramming and sinking USS Cumberland, Battle of Hampton Roads, 8 March 1862.

4 Comments
2023/11/24
18:04 UTC

188

'Roland's Last Stand' by EthicallyChallenged

1 Comment
2023/11/23
17:34 UTC

187

Lieutenant Colonel Judson Bishop leads the 2nd Minnesota Infantry in a daring charge up the slope of Missionary Ridge, Battle of Chattanooga, November 25, 1863.

4 Comments
2023/11/23
03:13 UTC

10

Feast at the End of Forever - Spanish Pilots enjoying a brief reprieve during the twilight months of the republic.

I have already posted this painting before, but I'm reposting now to let you know that I'm putting it up for auction! Bidding starts at 99p and 20% of the final sale will go to the Red Cross (or more if it goes viral or something)
Here is the auction

https://preview.redd.it/0kk79nsw4z1c1.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6c413a71de3717b568f55f691ae29c51813f74a

2 Comments
2023/11/22
22:18 UTC

200

“The Final Farewell” by Dan Nance

5 Comments
2023/11/22
22:07 UTC

216

"Canadian Field Guns Near Ortona" by Major Charles Fraser Comfort, 1945.

2 Comments
2023/11/22
21:57 UTC

154

'Henry IV at Shrewsbury' by Graham Turner

3 Comments
2023/11/21
15:31 UTC

192

Charge of the Australian Light Horse, Beersheba (Modern Be'er-Sheva, Israel), 31 October 1917 (Art by Steve Noon, for Osprey, ANZAC Soldier vs Ottoman Soldier: Gallipoli and Palestine 1915-18)

8 Comments
2023/11/21
10:03 UTC

360

21st Ohio at Horseshoe Ridge, the Battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863

10 Comments
2023/11/20
23:08 UTC

95

Ludolf Bakhuizen - Warships in a heavy Storm (c.1695) [6156x4056]

2 Comments
2023/11/20
22:05 UTC

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