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Napoleon on the Bellerophon

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While held off Plymouth, the spectacle attracted large crowds on the shore. Eastlake hired a boat and rowed out towards the ship where he could study Napoleon. His painting portrays Napoleon standing at a
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The painting was a popular success, financially allowing Eastlake to travel in Europe studying
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on the left of the picture emphasises his status as a prisoner of the victorious British. A
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Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life
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260 cm × 179 cm (102 in × 70.4 in)
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campaign, Napoleon tried to escape to the United States but surrendered to
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Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon in Plymouth Sound
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Index


Charles Lock Eastlake
Oil on canvas
Portrait
National Maritime Museum
London
painting
Charles Lock Eastlake
Emperor of the French
Napoleon
Royal Navy
HMS Bellerophon
Plymouth Sound
President of the Royal Academy
Battle of Waterloo
second abdication
Hundred Days
Congress of Vienna
Plymouth
Saint Helena
Atlantic Ocean
gangway
colonel
chasseurs à cheval
Union Jack
Royal Marine
Old Masters
continental
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich

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