/r/BattlePaintings
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
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Rules
- Please only submit paintings! There are other subs for photos or videos.
- The title should contain the name of the artist, name of the Painting and the year of the event depicted.
- Please post the source and a link to information about the battle or historical background in the comments.
- Please only submit Paintings are Historical events, for anything else please use /r/ImaginaryBattlefields
- Please Be civil, so please no racism, bigotry, Abusive language ect...
- No Posting Paintings with watermarks. (Nobody wants to go to your dodgy website.
- No Paintings depicting the Russian Millitary following 1991, No Russian Propaganda or Pro russian Comments.
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The 69th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry at The Battle of Gettysburg, by Don Troiani
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Battle of Sankelmark, 5th of February, 1864
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Daniele Manin and Niccolò Tommaseo after their liberation from Austrian prisons (by Napoleone Nani from 1876).
This painting refers to the European revolutionary movements of 1848, after Daniele Manin and Niccolò Tommaseo and other patriots were arrested for high treason, the Venetian people rose up, while the revolution was being followed throughout Europe, Venice chose to act in revolution as did nearby Milan, thus freeing the prisons and proclaiming Daniele Manin as the new doge of the Republic of San Marco.
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French conquest of Tunisia 28 April-23 December 1881
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Tamatave, bombarded and occupied by the French under Admiral Pierre, on 11 June 1883. Le Monde illustré, 1883.
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"Early Victories” by Jim Laurier. Rex Barber flew a P-38 Lightning in the 339th Fighter Squadron, 347th Fighter Group. On April 7, 1943, Barber engaged several Mitsubishi Zeros who had appeared near his airfield on Guadalacanal.
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Head Wound by Howard Brodie ,1945
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The Battle of Lookout Mountain, American Oil Company Americana Art Prints, circa 1963, by H. Charles McBarron
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"On The X" by Stuart Brown ( MH-6M Little Bird of 160th SOAR(A) special operations strike team inserted directly onto a target rooftop.)
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Battle of Marracuene February 2,1895
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Battle of Alcácer Quibir 4 August 1578
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“Troops Landing on C Beach, Suvla Bay, Later in the Day, 7th August 1915.” Oil painting by Norman Wilkinson, 1915.
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Painting "Fighting in the streets" Early world war one. (Artist Unknown)
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End of the five kopeck bridgehead, Siege of Leningrad 29 April 1942
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Battle of Gazala, 1942 - Lt.Col Draffen commands the Queens Bays [Kings Dragoon Guards] from a deck chair while riding a Crusader tank.
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"British Commando Raid" by G. Rava art
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‘Yorktown - The Storming of Redoubt 10’, on the night of October 14, 1781, by Graham Turner.
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Battle of Cesme at Night, Oil on Canvas, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1848.
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The story of Britain's famous Military Painter, Lady Butler - the female Victorian Era Artist who painted famous Waterloo Campaign and British Empire war scenes , including one of the most recognizable battle paintings ever - SCOTLAND FOR EVER
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Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (Chalons), 451
On June 20, 451 AD, Roman General Flavius Aetius (sometimes referred to as the “Last Roman”) and Theodoric, King of the Visigoths (the Roman Army was largely composed of Germanic warriors by this time), decisively defeated Attila’s Huns in one of the last military campaigns of the Western Roman Empire - though the victory was not enough to save the West, which collapsed little more than two decades later.
More info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Catalaunian_Plains
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Men of the German Pionier-Bataillon 336 and Soviet 334th Rifle Regiment engage in house fighting in the apartment buildings along Prospekt Lenina, Battle of Stalingrad, 13 November 1942
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