This painting is in the Atlanta Cyclorama. It shows the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, The High Water Mark of the Confederacy. The Battle on July 3rd, 1863 is popularly known as Pickett's Charge, after one of the three divisional commanders under Longstreet's I Corps and Hill's III Corps who marched out of the woods on Seminary Ridge to attack the center of the Union line - "The Angle" - on Cemetery Ridge. The painting shows the battle just after Gen. Lewis Armistead has gone down wounded, and the remaining Confederates are spilling over the stone wall into Gen. Winfield Hancock's II Corps. The Southern forces were repulsed with heavy losses and never again would General Robert E. Lee have sufficient forces to take the war to the Northern states. General Lewis Armistead, C.S.A. and General Winfield Hancock, U.S.A., were close friends before the war both. Both were wounded in the charge, with Armistead dying two days later and Hancock enduring great pain the remainder of his life. http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/barracks/attachment.php?attachmentid=85368&d=1338662934
One of my great grandfathers fought in the battle with the 4th Alabama over at Little Round Top against the 20th Maine.
The Meissonier Cuirassiers Avant la Battaille and the Le Rêve by Detaille. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Cuirassiers_1805_Meissonier_Chantilly.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Detaille_Le_R%C3%AAve.jpg
I like Cuneo's paintings, the 2 I have had a chance to examine closely I found the mouse in. I also like many of his motorsport paintings, Le Mans especially. I have a print of David Shepherds 'Arnhem Bridge 5pm the second day' which I have always thought very atmospheric, showing the wreckage of the Grabner attack. Edit: Jeff and Miguel's paintings are fabulous.
Don Troiani is best known for his works on the Civil War. He has also done some superb paintings on the American Revolution and War of 1812.
I like Cuneo's paintings, the 2 I have had a chance to examine closely I found the mouse in. I also like many of his motorsport paintings, Le Mans especially. I have a print of David Shepherds 'Arnhem Bridge 5pm the second day' which I have always thought very atmospheric, showing the wreckage of the Grabner attack. Edit: Jeff and Miguel's paintings are fabulous. Which 2 paintings of Cuneo do you have Mike? Lesley
I've seen a few Cuneo's hanging in quite a few mess's and he puts the mouse in his Military Paintings.
My favourite artist is Fred Farell. Most I ever laid down for an original book. http://aur.home.xs4all.nl/layout/frames.htm?Battlefields/farrell.htm Regards, Marco
One that's always haunted me since I first saw it is George Leroux's L'Enfer(Hell) 1917 Salisbury's picture of Jack Cornwell is very evocative Interesting bit of trivia: The artist used Cornwell's brother to model for this painting and finally Lady Elizabeth Butler's Charge of the Scots Greys for its great perspective: There's lots more so it was hard to narrow my choices to three. I find many paintings from the First World War particularly interesting as the stylistic variations are amazing and there were so many great artists working on both sides.
Lesley, I don't have any prints of Cuneo's paintings but my local Legion has one, a D-Day scene and the other I saw up close was in a Legion club in Clifton, Notts, the scene was desert, gun battery engaging German tanks (can't remember details now). I can't find images of those two online. Good fun when there are kids in the Legion - keeps them quiet for ages looking for the mouse!