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| Keywords: The Battle of Fontenoy.jpg en Felix Philippoteaux 1815-1884 was born in Paris where he trained with Léon Coignet 1794-1880 He soon specialised in history and portrait paintings and started exhibiting at the Salon in 1833 He also produced battle scenes some of them in a panorama format with the assistance of his son Paul Dominique Philippoteaux 1846-1876 who would be at the forefront of a new generation of panorama painters Félix Philippoteaux was awarded the Légion d ™honneur in 1846 This painting is a fine example of Félix Philippoteaux ™ battle scenes a genre in which he specialised with success It shows the battle of Fontenoy during the Austrian Succession War between the British Hanoverians Austrian and Dutch and the French which took place on the 11th June 1745 and more specifically Lord Charles Hay of the First Foot Guards challenging the Gardes Francaises This very accurate representation of warfare tends to re-create the past drawing upon 17th-century Dutch examples such as Philips Wouverman 1619-1668 and differs from the 19th-century Realist interpretation of the subject 1873 painted http //collections vam ac uk/item/O89471/oil-painting-the-battle-of-fontenoy-1745/ Philippoteaux Félix Henri Emmanuel born 1815 - died 1884 artist PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard Battles | ||||
