Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Monday, 25 August 2025

Mexican-American war uniforms

Gerry Embleton

 Some of my favourite illustrators have done this period.
Richard Hook

Michael Chappell

Bryan Fosten

Sunday, 3 August 2025

By Louis Braun

Bayerische Infanteristen beim Siegesjubel.
Louis Braun - Wikipedia
 
Gemälde von Louis Braun (1836-1916) um das Jahr 1870. Es zeigt den bayerischen Infanteristen Max Lehner, Krankenträger der Sanitätskompanie, aus zwei Perspektiven. Standort: Bayerisches Armeemuseum, Ingolstadt


Monday, 16 June 2025

National Army Museum exhibition


Myth and Reality: Military Art in the Age of Queen Victoria
📅 1 Jul 2025 - 1 Nov 2026
🎟️ Free!
Our brand new exhibition opens next month. This major exhibition of rarely seen artworks illuminates shifting attitudes towards soldiers and the Army during Queen Victoria’s reign (1837 – 1901).
Discover over 100 inspiring artworks - including paintings, sketchbooks and miniatures - from the National Army Museum's collections, as well as major loans from the Royal Collections Trust and the National Portrait Gallery
📸 Home Again, 1858. Oil on canvas by Henry Nelson O’Neil

Sunday, 23 March 2025

Bavarian infantry

 https://www.wilnitsky.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi/details...

Fritz Birkmeyer "Bavarian 12th Infantry Regiment in Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71", watercolor, 1873, Collection B. Wilnitsky, Vienna


Thursday, 27 February 2025

Garde mobile de Paris en 1848

 This was found by Thierry Joseph and identifiend by Jean Dettori. 




Saturday, 15 June 2024

“Union Vanguard” by artist Julian Scott, 1889. .

 

Julian A. Scott (February 14, 1846 – July 4, 1901), was born in Johnson, Vermont, and served as a Union Army drummer during the American Civil War, where he received America's highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Lee's Mills. He was also an American painter and Civil War artist.

Friday, 8 March 2024

First Dragoons arrive at Comanche Village, 1834.

 By George Catlin. Wiki on the event. I started reading Comanche Empire which is great but no pictures. Put some pics on a Pinterest page here


from here
Members of the 1st Regiment of Dragoons sport regulation 1833 uniforms in this paint-
ing by Charles McBarron. In reality, uniforms and provisions were slow in coming.



Sunday, 25 February 2024

Wednesday, 21 February 2024

Comanche War party

 George Catlin. Comanche War Party on the March, Fully Equipped. 1846 


Tuesday, 6 February 2024

Léon-Eugène-Auguste Abry

Léon-Eugène-Auguste Abry (1857-1905) was a Belgian painter who specialized in military scenes. His father was a Belgian general.  Wiki