Images of War

This is Edward Penny's 1764 painting, The Marquis of Granby giving Alms to a sick Soldier and his Family.  It's not the typical image we might have of war. Yet this was one of the most popular portrayals of eighteenth-century war in Britain. Edward Penny (1714 - 1791), The Marquis of Granby giving Alms to a sick Soldier…