Paintings of James Alexander Walker
Painted around 50 years later from the year in which the Battle took place, Napoleon Watching The Battle of Friedland is an oil on canvas painting by James Alexander Walker completed in 1855. It is currently residing in a private collection and lengths around 5 by 3 feet in both dimensions. It is commemorating one of the Napoleonic wars – The Battle of Friedland, being one of the Coalition Wars between two rivals, Napoleon being on one side and Prussia, Russia, Saxony, Sweden and United Kingdom being the rival side combined. And still the combined powers of those countries were not enough to defeat Napoleon’s thrashing march of winning over the world. Napoleon, on the white horse, is watching over his army marching towards the […]