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| Keywords: "Grant and His Generals" Painted 1865 by Ole Peter Hansen Balling.jpg en This painting is a huge 10 foot tall by 16 feet wide curving image that is mounted on a circular stairwell wall at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC Read about the Museum on this website here Grant and His Generals Painted 1865 by Ole Peter Hansen Balling April 13 1823 - May 1 1906 Ole Peter Hansen Balling Painting Grant and his Generals There is a cartoon aspect to this painting because of the crowded posing and the caricatured sense of speed on horseback This is true of many historical paintings which are done in this mode Here's the list of fellow in the portrait Left to right Thomas C Devin 1822-1878 George A Custer 1839-1876 Hugh J Kilpatrick 1836-1881 William H Emory 1811-1887 Philip H Sheridan 1831-1888 James B McPherson 1828-1864 George Crook 1830-1890 Wesley Merritt 1834-1910 George H Thomas 1816-1870 Gouverneur Kemble Warren 1830-1882 George G Meade 1815-1872 John G Parke 1827-1900 William T Sherman 1820-1891 John A Logan 1826-1886 Ulysses S Grant 1822-1885 Ambrose E Burnside 1824-1881 Joseph Hooker 1814-1879 Winfield Scott Hancock 1824-1886 John A Rawlins 1831-1869 Edward O C Ord 1818-1883 Francis Preston Blair 1821-1875 Alfred H Terry 1827-1890 Henry W Slocum 1827-1894 Jefferson C Davis 1828-1879 Oliver O Howard 1830-1909 John M Schofield 1831-1906 Joseph A Mower 1827-1870 Balling spent five weeks with Grant and his army doing preliminary sketches of the various men for the finished canvas The portraits of Sherman and George Thomas were done after the end of the war; the image of Custer second from left is said to be his only live portrait 1865 http //www comicbookbrain com/large-grant-generals php Creator Ole Peter Hansen Balling PD-old-70-1923 Uploaded with UploadWizard Paintings by Ole Peter Hansen Balling in the National Portrait Gallery United States | ||||
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