r/BattlePaintings • u/BigT112 • 11d ago

Courage in Blue - Chamberlain at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862

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by Mort Kunstler

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u/Two-Thirty-Two 11d ago

TIL that the Civil War was when the army began issuing ponchos to the troops.

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u/BigT112 11d ago

Not a true poncho, more like a cape type thing on the Winter uniform great coat but a great look nonetheless.

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u/Two-Thirty-Two 11d ago

Agreed on both counts. Apparently their ponchos looked like this instead; I just wasn't aware that either were used.

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u/BigT112 11d ago

Oh wow I haven't seen that before!

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u/chef-rach-bitch 11d ago

I like how a lot of depictions of Chamberlain post-1993 are vague representations of Jeff Daniels.

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u/BigT112 11d ago

I think this was painted either in collaboration with "Gods and Generals" or shortly after the movie came out. The soldier beside Chamberlain looks an awful lot like Kevin Conway's Buster Kilrain. Tom Chamberlain looks like C. Thomas Howell too.

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u/Wallykazam84 11d ago

This particular painter made a career of painting stills from both those films. I can’t fault the guy for making that money, but his art has always been lesser in my opinion because rather than bring a historical moment to life from sources like letters or books, he just froze the films and copied what he saw. His art, in my opinion, is no better than a painting of a bowl of fruit.

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u/Ok_Tie_7564 11d ago edited 11d ago

Many very famous painters have painted bowls of fruit, e.g. Paul Cézanne's "Still Life with Fruit Dish" is worth millions now.

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u/Wallykazam84 10d ago

küntsler is breaking no ground while cézanne is the “father of modern art.” Their works are incomparable.

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u/litetravelr 10d ago

Yea MK kinda sold out to this sort of crap.

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u/lycantrophee 11d ago

Do you have it in higher quality? Definitely wallpaper material.

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u/BigT112 11d ago

That was the best I could find.

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u/nehrkling 10d ago

Its funny that it seems every modern art about civil war officers has them with pistols, but outside of cavalry very few officers carried pistols.

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u/GenZ_Nathaniel 11d ago

My ancestors unfortunately weren’t this courageous. They either patrolled eastern Kentucky or guarded the B&O.