Generals

With these apparitional paintings, Knell revisits historical military figures, many long-forgotten or overlooked. Knell washes down old narratives and in an era of extremes and polarised positions, insists upon the necessity and phantasmagoria of nuance.

General of the Army Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888)

General of the Army Ulysses S. Grant (1822 – 1885)

Major General George Gordon Meade (1815 – 1872)

Major General George Henry Thomas (1816 – 1870)

Major General James Birdseye McPherson (1828-1864)

Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (1896 – 1974)

Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Stepanovich Konev (1897 – 1973)

Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (1896 – 1968)

Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (1900 – 1982)

Lieutenant-General Sir William Pulteney Pulteney (1861 – 1941)

Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston (1864 – 1940)

General Sir Hubert de la Pour Gough (1870 – 1963)