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Vasily Vereshchagin painting realities of war

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Awarded a medal for his bravery, veteran of many battles and wars fought by the Imperial Russian Army, his paintings were banned in Russia and elsewhere.

August 5, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Casualties of War 2

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Paul Nash and John Singer Sargent’s paintings for the Hall of Remembrance, the tragic loss of Eric Ravilious, a Serb painter executed in a concentration camp, and more.

May 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Casualties of War 1

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Frédéric Bazille and Henri Regnault, both killed in the brief Franco-Prussian War. War artists including former surgeon Henry Tonks show scenes from the First World War.

May 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Quiet Landscapes: watercolours of Eric Ravilious 2

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The war years, from eerily deserted scenes of the Sussex Downs, to north Norway for a deployment, and military flight, which brought about his death.

September 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Quiet Landscapes: watercolours of Eric Ravilious 1

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Influenced by the Shoreham landscapes of Samuel Palmer, and his teacher John Nash, here are the eerily empty landscapes of Essex, Sussex Downs, and elsewhere.

September 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Peace and War: Paintings of François Flameng 2

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In 1914, after a career painting the rich and famous, he became a war artist. For the next 4 years he showed what the Great War really looked like.

March 24, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Peace and War: Paintings of François Flameng 1

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Royal portraits and history of the rich and famous – and a single gruesome work showing an episode now considered by some to be genocide.

March 23, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1918: War

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A century ago, the Great War ended. Here are some great paintings from war artists like John Singer Sargent and Paul Nash, and others like Lovis Corinth.

November 6, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Franco-Prussian War: Destruction of Paris

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Paris was under siege from September 1870 to the end of January 1871. Painters commanded its defenders, and showed its distress.

July 28, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Franco-Prussian War: Depicting defeat

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In the late 19th century, painting was centred on Paris. But in 1870-71, the city was all but destroyed after a long siege, in the Franco-Prussian War. The story told in paintings.

July 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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