Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Ride of General Marion's Men

Alonzo Chappel

Date

c. 1850

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Alonzo Chappel was a New York artist who specialized in historical illustration. His interpretations of the events and heroes of American history presented his late nineteenth-century audiences with a romanticized view of their past. He was especially popular for his depiction of the early history of this country. General Francis Marion (1732-1795) began his military career fighting the Cherokee Indians in 1759. Better known as The Swamp Fox, he became famous for his daring escapades at the head of a guerrilla militia that harangued the British army along the southern frontier during the Revolutionary War. United States, Americas

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