The Resurrection Of Napoleon Bonaparte by Mark Sheeky

G871A The Resurrection Of Napoleon Bonaparte
Oil on canvas panel
Nov 2015 to Aug 2016, 450x320 mm

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About this painting
A painting of the monument The White Nancy in Bollington, Cheshire. The painting was inspired by a commission to paint the monument, which was built to commemorate the victory at the Battle of Waterloo. When composing, I made the sky dramatic, adding distant fire storm, which evoked two things, a sense of destiny, and a sense of distant war, which was present in the news as France had recently been attacked by Islamic State terrorists. In Britain, the consequential Brexit vote had not yet occurred as I developed the painting, but was approaching.

I had the vision of adding the figure and horse of Napoleon from Jacques-Louis David's painting, charging towards that distant point, filled with gusto.

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