History Painting — works
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The siege of Arbela in the era of Hulagu Khan, from a Chingiz-nama (Book of Chingiz Khan) of the Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) of Rashid al-Din (Persian, 1247–1318)
The siege of Arbela in the era of Hulagu Khan, page from a Chingiz-nama (Book of Chingiz Khan) of the Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) of Rashid al-Din (Persian,1247–1318)
Battle of Isly, August 14, 1844
Akbar Mounting his Horse; page from the Chester Beatty Akbar Nama (History of Akbar)
Queen Zenobia Found on the Banks of the Arax
Napoléon signs his abdication at Fontainebleau 11 April 1814
Battle between Manuchihr and Tur, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, c. 934–1020)
Watson and the Shark
Lucretia and her Husband Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus
Egyptian Family (Sketch for "The Battle of the Pyramids")
General Jean-Baptiste Kléber (Sketch for "The Battle of the Pyramids")
Battle Scene at Kurukshetra from the Mahabharata War (verso), from a Kalighat album
Napoleon in Egypt
Page of disasters, from the Tarikh-i Alfi (History of a Thousand Years)
Scene from the marriage of Messaline and Gaius Silius, possibly an episode from a play
"Council of War aboard 'The Seven Provinces' the Flagship of Michiel Adriaensz de Ruyter, 10 June 1666, preceding the Four Days' Battle
Portrait of a Man
Battle of the combined Venetian and Dutch fleets against the Turks in the Bay of Foya, 1649
The battle of Cadix
De rarekiek (’t Fraay Curieus)
Portrait of a Man
The battle between Bréauté and Leckerbeetje on the heath outside Vught, 5 Februari 1600
The Man-of-War Brielle on the River Maas off Rotterdam
The Death of Lucretia
Encounter during the Battle of Kijkduin
Dutch ships ramming Spanish galleys off the English coast, 3 October 1602
The skirmish of Michiel Adriaensz de Ruyter against the duke of York, commanding the 'Royal Prince'during the Battle of Solebay, 7 June 1672: episode from the Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-74)
Antiochus and Stratonice
Ambassador Cornelis Calkoen at his Audience with Sultan Ahmed III
The Siege and Capture of the City of Hulst from the Spaniards, November 5, 1645
The Batlle of Livorno, 14 March 1653: episode from the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-54)
Captured English Ships after the Four Days’ Battle
Episode from the Four Day Battle at Sea, 11-14 June 1666, in the second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-67)
A Couple Making Love in a Park Spied on by Children
Cimon and Pero (Roman Charity)
The continence of Scipio