#george william joy

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George William Joy

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George William Joy - Laodamia (1878)

#George William Joy #irish art #mythology #1870s

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George William Joy (Irish, 1844-1925)

The Bayswater Omnibus

#George William Joy #Irish Art #Art #London #England

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An English Drummer Boy by George W. Joy

#drummer boy #art #english #british #europe #european #napoleonic #history #war #battle #drums #drum #drummer #george william joy #england #britain

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The Three Graces after George William Joy 

#20th Century #english #art #print #George William Joy

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Lesbia’s Sparrow, Catullus

George William Joy

#George William Joy #lesbia #ancient rome #art #art history #painting #sparrow #irish art #genre art #portrait

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George William Joy, The Bayswater Omnibus, 1895, Museum of London, London.

#George William Joy #illustrations #paintings

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George William Joy / “Flora MacDonald’s farewell to Prince Charlie” / 1891 / Private collection

#George William Joy #1890s art #1890s #19th century art #19th century #Flora MacDonald #Bonnie Prince Charlie #english art #british art

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George W. Joy - General Gordon's Last Stand - 1893

Major-General Charles George Gordon CB (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British Army officer and administrator. He saw action in the Crimean War as an officer in the British Army. However, he made his military reputation in China, where he was placed in command of the "Ever Victorious Army", a force of Chinese soldiers led by European officers which was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion, regularly defeating much larger forces. For these accomplishments, he was given the nickname "Chinese Gordon" and honours from both the Emperor of China and the British.

He entered the service of the Khedive of Egypt in 1873 (with British government approval) and later became the Governor-General of the Sudan, where he did much to suppress revolts and the local slave trade. He then resigned and returned to Europe in 1880.

A serious revolt then broke out in the Sudan, led by a Muslim religious leader and self-proclaimed Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad. In early 1884, Gordon was sent to Khartoum with instructions to secure the evacuation of loyal soldiers and civilians and to depart with them. In defiance of those instructions, after evacuating about 2,500 civilians, he retained a smaller group of soldiers and non-military men. In the months before the fall of Khartoum, Gordon and the Mahdi corresponded; Gordon offered him the sultanate of Kordofan and the Mahdi requested Gordon to convert to Islam and join him, to which Gordon declined. Gordon was besieged by the Mahdi's forces, Gordon organised a citywide defence that lasted for almost a year and gained him the admiration of the British public, but not of the government, which had wished him not to become entrenched there. Only when public pressure to act had become irresistible did the government, with reluctance, send a relief force. It arrived two days after the city had fallen and Gordon had been killed.

The manner of Gordon's death is uncertain, but it was romanticised in a popular painting by George William Joy — General Gordon's Last Stand (1893, currently in the Leeds City Art Gallery), and again in the film Khartoum (1966) with Charlton Heston as Gordon. The most popular account of Gordon's death was that he put on his ceremonial gold-braided blue uniform of the Governor-General together with the Pasha's red fez and that he went out unarmed, except with his rattan cane, to be cut down by the Ansar. This account was very popular with the British press as it contained much Christian imagery with Gordon as a Christlike figure dying passively for the sins of all humanity.

George William Joy (7 July 1844 in Dublin, Ireland – 28 October 1925 in Purbrook, Hampshire) was an Irish painter in London.

He was perhaps best known for his depiction of heroism in a painting entitled The Death of General Gordon, Khartoum, 26 January 1885 (1893; Leeds City Museum). Picturing a final moment in the very recent British history of the Siege of Khartoum, Gordon is pictured bravely facing his fate in the Governor-General's Palace, Khartoum, standing above the followers of the invading Mahdi army moments before being struck down by a spear.

#George William Joy #Ireland #uk #historical #charles george gordon #gordon of karthoem

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George William Joy (1844-1925) , Sleeping Joan of Arc (Joan of Arc on her way to Reims)

#george william joy #joan of ark #jeanne d'arc #art #painting

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I have a fascination with how Victorian Women traveled.

The Bayswater omnibus with travelers in 1895 by George William Joy.

#travel photography #victorian woman #victorian painting #george william joy #the Bayswater Omnibus #travel

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George William Joy (1844-1925) - ‘Jeanne d’ Arc.’, “Moderne Kunst”, 1902.

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#George William Joy #Jeanne d’ Arc #Moderne Kuns #joan of ark #vision #apparition #angel #angels #sleeping #dreaming

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George William Joy (British, 1844 - 1925) - Lesbia’s Sparrow

#George William Joy #british art

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George William Joy (Irish, 1844-1925)

A dinner of herbs

#George William Joy #Irish Art #Art

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The First Union Jack by George William Joy

#union jack #first #flag #great britain #britain #art #painting #george william joy #british #history #britannia #england #empire #romanticism #romantic #flags

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George William Joy    Elaine the Fair Maid of Astolat  1880

#george william joy #lady of shalott