Battle of San Jacinto - Henry McArdle

Henry McArdle painted the Battle of San Jacinto in 1895.  His artistic interpretation "was the only nineteenth-century painting depicting the actual events of the battle to receive wide exposure." 

McArdle "was careful to include any individual whose likeness he had been able to reconstruct through either personal acquaintance or photographs."  Indeed, the Texas Archives contain at least one letter where a battle veteran wrote to the artist, advising how he should appear in the work.

McArdle employed a 'picto-maps'  style for this painting - a painstaking process he also used for other works.

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Credits

The Battle of San Jacinto, online courtesy Prints and Photographs Collection, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

Information, and quoted passages, from Painting Texas History to 1900 by Sam DeShong Ratcliffe, page 46.