The Death of General Wolfe, an oil painting, depicts a scene from which pivotal French and Indian War battle that took place outside the walls of Quebec City?
The Death of General Wolfe The Death of General Wolfe is a well-known 1770 painting by Anglo-American artist Benjamin West depicting the death of British General James Wolfe at the 1759 Battle of Quebec during the French and Indian War (which was the North American theater of the Seven Years' War). It is an oil on canvas of the Enlightenment period. West made an additional and nearly identical painting of the same scene for George III of the United Kingdom in 1771.
Battle of Yesil Kol Nor The Battle of Yesil Kol Nor is an 18th-century war painting created by Chinese court painters and European Jesuit monks. It was commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor of the Chinese Qing Empire as part of an order of 16 large battle paintings (8 metres wide by 4 metres tall) to commemorate battles that took place in Qurman, Xinjiang province in February 1759. The battles resulted in the Qing Empire successfully regaining control of Xinjiang from Turks who had occupied the province following the ousting of the Dzungar people from the region by Qing forces.