The beautiful, eye candy and fictional looking scene is actually a real place in Wales with a much history hidden under its high hills and deep waters. It is, as the title says itself, the Cadair Idris – the chair of Idris. In Welsh mythology, Idris was a giant who used the hill as a chair to gaze upon the stars. Derived from the mythology, the place became known as Cadair Idris. English painter might have been attracted to the place for its mythological importance as well as the astonishing beauty. We see a certain completeness in the scene as nothing else seems to be left out. Painting contains an artistic play of colors in which the artist has used the most darker colors at […]
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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 […]