Albrecht Adam
Albrecht Adam (16 April 1786 – 28 August 1862) was a
Bavarian painter, who accompanied
Napoleon Bonaparte during the
1812 Russian campaign. He was attached as an official artist to the Bavarian contingent in Bonaparte's . Throughout the campaign he sketched, painted and depicted an important record of the campaign to Moscow. In his memoirs he described the carnage of
Borodino and late into his career he was still painting battle scenes from the
Napoleonic period. He became a well-known equine artist, a legacy continued by his grandson,
Emil Adam.
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