/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.

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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, No Russian Propaganda or Pro russian Comments.

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105

“Soldiers of the New Zealand Division Advancing.” Oil painting by Arthur Lloyd, 1918.

4 Comments
2024/10/31
00:14 UTC

208

"Taking Old Vickers Position, Bobdubi Ridge, 28 July 1943" by Sir Ivor Hele, oil on canvas, 1960.

1 Comment
2024/10/30
20:10 UTC

244

Recreating a battle painting in miniature

This isn't a battle painting as such, but rather a recreation I made of a famous battle painting using model soldiers. Who recognises the battle and the painting?!

7 Comments
2024/10/30
08:29 UTC

269

" In Safe Hands" by Stuart Brown

0 Comments
2024/10/29
21:08 UTC

358

A depiction of the Siege of Fort Motte on May 8-12, 1781, by Mort Kunstler. The British surrendered when American forces lit the roof on fire; allegedly with flaming arrows or, as other accounts claim, with makeshift combustibles.

5 Comments
2024/10/28
21:10 UTC

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"El regreso" of Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau. During the war of independence of the United States(1775-1783), the spanish-french fleet of admiral Luis de Córdoba comes back from the capture of the double english convoy of 55 ships which were directed towards America and India.

The capture of the double English convoy of 1780, the action of August 9, 1780 or the Battle of Cape Santa Maria (1780) took place within the framework of the American War of Independence, and more specifically, in the Anglo-Spanish War (1779-1783) when, based on information provided by the Spanish intelligence services, a combined Spanish-French fleet under the command of the director general of the Spanish Navy, Don Luis de Córdova, managed to capture - with hardly any resistance and when they had not yet separated - two English convoys, one bound for India and the other for America, which were loaded with troops, supplies and weapons and were heading to support the British colonial wars overseas.

The losses represented for the United Kingdom the greatest logistical disaster in its naval history, even surpassing that suffered by the PQ 17 convoy, lost to German forces more than a century and a half later, during the Second World War. The number of captured ships and men, as well as the amount of more than a million pounds sterling in gold bullion and coins that passed into Spanish hands, caused heavy losses on the London Stock Exchange (whose index plummeted by 18 percentage points), which seriously damaged the important finances that the Kingdom of Great Britain maintained to be able to sustain the distant wars it was fighting.

This successful interception demonstrated that the English fleet, dispersed in too many theatres of operations, had lost control of the Atlantic routes in 1780, which in 1781 favoured the Franco-American victory at Yorktown and the successful recovery by the Spanish of Menorca in 1782.

George III suffered a fainting spell when he received the news, not only because of the blow to the State coffers, but because he had just lost a significant sum of his own assets that, on the advice of his secretary, he had invested in three securities on the London Stock Exchange. The insurance company Lloyd's, one of the sovereign's investments, went into the red the week after news of the naval action, having to face insurance policies worth more than half of its assets and losing 60 percent of its stock market value. This Spanish victory, added to the serious losses caused by the storms in the Caribbean, caused a financial crisis among marine insurers throughout Europe.

1 Comment
2024/10/28
10:43 UTC

61

Battle of Papudo November 26, 1865

Until November 1865, Chile had been the only country firm in its declaration of war against Spain, which desired to recapture its lost South American colonies. Through the efforts of its president, Mariano Ignacio Prado, Peru was subsequently galvanized into action against Spain.

1 Comment
2024/10/28
02:20 UTC

249

Battle of San Mateo 28 February 1814 – 25 March 1814

The Battle of San Mateo was a serie of battles in the Valleys of Aragua in what is now Venezuela, during the Venezuelan War of Independence between 28 February and 25 March 1814.

8 Comments
2024/10/28
02:17 UTC

69

Battle of Araure 5 December 1813

2 Comments
2024/10/28
02:13 UTC

25

Battle of Tacuarí March 9, 1811

0 Comments
2024/10/28
02:10 UTC

57

Paraguay Campaign September 1810 – March 1811

0 Comments
2024/10/28
02:08 UTC

106

Battle of Las Piedras May 18, 1811

1 Comment
2024/10/28
02:04 UTC

301

'Saving the Crew of "Audacious"'; as she sinks after striking a mine, 27 October 1914. by William Lionel Wyllie (circa 1918)

1 Comment
2024/10/27
15:13 UTC

281

General Giuseppe Garibaldi is saved by his Aide-de-Camp during a battle. By Achille Bizzoni 1901

2 Comments
2024/10/26
15:34 UTC

206

“Les Alliés” Painting by Pinel de Grandchamp dated 1855 dedicated to triple alliance among France, Ottoman Empire and UK during the Crimean War

3 Comments
2024/10/26
14:27 UTC

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Colonel de la Rochethulon presenting to the recruits the flag of the 6th regiment of cuirassiers. January 1887 by Louis Auguste Georges Loustaunau

6 Comments
2024/10/26
12:53 UTC

174

“Erecting a Camouflage Tree.” Oil painting by G. C. Léon Underwood, 1919.

2 Comments
2024/10/25
23:24 UTC

389

"Charge of the Light Brigade" by Richard Caton Woodville Jr. - Depicting the 17th Lancers charging against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava, October 25, 1854

10 Comments
2024/10/25
13:04 UTC

206

The War in Cuba - Surprise of an Insurgent Camp

1 Comment
2024/10/25
12:02 UTC

93

Battle of Seven Oaks 19 June 1816

3 Comments
2024/10/25
01:01 UTC

163

The Battle of Marston Moor 1644, by James Barker

14 Comments
2024/10/25
00:59 UTC

101

The Battle of Marston Moor 1644, by James Barker

3 Comments
2024/10/25
00:53 UTC

47

Bishops' Wars 21 March 1639–September 1640

0 Comments
2024/10/25
00:51 UTC

328

Wojciech Kossak, Eaglets – Defense of the Cemetery (1926). Lwów Eaglets depicted during the Siege of Lwów (Lviv). (Polish Army Museum)

1 Comment
2024/10/25
00:47 UTC

127

battle of Santa Cruz April 9–10, 1899

0 Comments
2024/10/24
02:18 UTC

75

Second Battle Of Caloocan February 22–25, 1899

0 Comments
2024/10/24
02:09 UTC

515

Battle of Caloocan February 10, 1899

7 Comments
2024/10/24
02:07 UTC

498

The Charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo

I bought this print several years ago at auction for $10.

25 Comments
2024/10/23
19:39 UTC

258

The destruction of the Italian submarine "Medusa" by SM U-11 in the northern Adriatic on June 10th 1915 by Alexander Kircher (1867-1939).

1 Comment
2024/10/23
15:47 UTC

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Timur's forces led by his son ‘Umar Shaykh defeating the army of Qamar al-Din; a folio from the royal Mughal Zafarnama, by Jagjivan Kalan, circa 1595-1600

3 Comments
2024/10/22
18:25 UTC

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