Major General James Wolfe
After Joseph Highmore, 1761. Oil on canvas.
38 inches by 48 inches.
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A posthumous portrait of Major General James Wolfe. Painted in 1761, after the successful battle of Quebec, it shows the victorious Wolfe standing and pointing to the battlefield on the Plains of Abraham. Wolfe died during the battle, age 32. His French counterpart, the Marquis de Montcalm also lost his life that day. The British victory effectively ended the long French and American Indian War, 1754–1763. Wolfe is also immortalized in the famous painting by Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe.