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Napoleon on Board HMS Bellerophon
Sir William Quiller Orchardson · 1880
A Victorian history painting depicting Napoleon Bonaparte standing on the deck of HMS Bellerophon as he is exiled to St. Helena in 1815.
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This painting by Sir William Quiller Orchardson depicts the fallen Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte on the deck of the British warship HMS Bellerophon. Following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo and his subsequent surrender to Captain Frederick Maitland, Napoleon is shown watching the French coastline recede as he begins his journey into exile.
The work is a classic example of Victorian history painting, created in 1880. Orchardson relied on eyewitness accounts from July 1815 to capture the somber atmosphere, emphasizing the physical and social distance between the isolated former Emperor and the group of British officers and French companions observing him from the background.
This painting is part of the curated material that grounds the AI version of Napoleon Bonaparte on Humy.ai — when students ask about related events, the AI can quote it and cite it.
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