The Death of General Wolfe is a 1770 painting by Anglo-American artist Benjamin West, commemorating the 1759 Battle of Quebec, where General James Wolfe...
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victory in 1759 over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec. The son of a distinguished general, Edward Wolfe, he received his first...
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Benjamin West (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
scenes such as The Death of Nelson, The Death of General Wolfe, the Treaty of Paris, and Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky. Entirely self-taught...
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The Death of General Wolfe, suggested that Trumbull paint great events of the American Revolution. The first was The Death of General Warren at the Battle...
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The Death of Nelson is a painting by the American artist Benjamin West dated 1806. In 1770, West painted The Death of General Wolfe. This was not an accurate...
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troops commanded by General James Wolfe successfully resisted the column advance of French troops and Canadian militia under General Louis-Joseph, Marquis...
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the traditional pyramidal composition of history paintings focusing on one prominent individual, such as Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe or...
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Canada (redirect from Etymology of Canada)
Journal of the Sociology of Language (185): 25–52. doi:10.1515/IJSL.2007.024. ISSN 0165-2516. "The Death of General Wolfe". National Gallery of Canada...
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Western American Art (section The culture of cowboys)
achieve the accuracy of the scenario showed in the paintings. The Moccasin Error which is a factual error of a painting called The Death of General Wolfe, demonstrates...
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History painting (section The terms)
serious difficulty. When, in 1770, Benjamin West proposed to paint The Death of General Wolfe in contemporary dress, he was firmly instructed to use classical...
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ascending to the Plains of Abraham.[citation needed] He is not the Simon Fraser depicted in the famous painting The Death of General Wolfe. Fraser served in...
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partitions the remnant of Mataram Sultanate; the Mangkunegaran Grand Duchy is established. 1758: British colonel James Wolfe issues Wolfe's Manifesto....
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Hervey Smythe (category British military personnel of the French and Indian War)
General Wolfe. Hervey made his own portrait of Wolfe at Quebec. Canadian Biography - Hervey Smythe National Trust Collection - Death of General Wolfe...
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Seven Years' War (redirect from European theater of the Seven Years' War)
Longfellow's Evangeline, Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe, James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans), maps and other printed materials...
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Thomas Hinde (category History of Methodism in the United States)
physician, a member of the British Royal Navy, an American Revolutionary, personal physician to Patrick Henry, and treated General Wolfe when he died in Quebec...
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peace!" — James Wolfe, British Army general (13 September 1759), mortally wounded at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, on learning that the French forces...
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George Romney (painter) (category 1802 deaths)
painting, The Death of General Wolfe, into a Royal Society of Arts competition. According to friends of Romney, he was awarded the second prize of 50 guineas...
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Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe, and the growing popularity of romantic painting.[citation needed] The composition of the rescuers in the boat shows...
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portal List of North American settlements by year of foundation History of Canada Timeline of Canada history List of years in Canada Timeline of the European...
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The Death of General Wolfe, The Departure of Regulus, and Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, which date from the decisive early...
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developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work was satirical and centred on the counterculture of the 1960s and...
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The military history of the United Kingdom covers the period from the creation of the united Kingdom of Great Britain, with the political union of England...
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Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (redirect from Township of Newtown)
painter of works such as The Death of Nelson, The Death of General Wolfe, the Treaty of Paris, and Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky. West...
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Events from the 15th century in Canada. 1450 - the Iroquois form the Great League of Peace and Power. 1492 - Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), backed by...
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exhibition of the academy. The following year West produced his best-known work The Death of General Wolfe. In 1792 he became President of the Royal Academy...
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Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double meaning of a wolf tone; a sound that can affect instruments in the string...
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painter of epic and historical scenes with his 1770 work The Death of General Wolfe. He further consolidated his reputation with and The Battle of La Hogue...
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John Boydell (category Sheriffs of the City of London)
which accounted for the major part of Boydell's success as a print dealer". Most notable among these was the Death of General Wolfe a 1770 painting by...
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England in the 1760s. He made his name with his 1770 epic painting The Death of General Wolfe. It was produced during the American War of Independence...
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death, as the President of the Royal Academy. West had made his name on both sides of the Atlantic with his 1770 epic painting The Death of General Wolfe...
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