Study for The Battle of Waterloo, Jan Willem Pieneman, c. 1824

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Pieneman’s studies depict individual combats more clearly than his large painting. Amid the chaos in the centre of this drawing one man is being despatched by a pistol shot, while another succumbs to a deadly sabre thrust. At the lower left a horse without a rider gallops into the scene, which represents an attack by German mercenaries in Wellington’s army.