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'''Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville''' (31 May 1835 – 18 May 1885) was a [[France|French]] [[Academic]] [[Painting|painter]] who studied under [[Eugène Delacroix]]. His dramatic and intensely patriotic subjects illustrated episodes from the [[Franco-Prussian War]], the [[Crimean War]], the [[Zulu War]] and portraits of soldiers. Some of his works have been collected by the [[Hermitage Museum]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]] and by the [[Metropolitan Museum]] in [[New York]].

 

[[File:Alphonse de Neuville - The defence of Rorke's Drift 1879 - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|right|''The Defence of [[Battle of Rorke's Drift|Rorke's Drift]]'', oil on canvas painting by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, 1880, [[Art Gallery of New South Wales]]. This incident occurred on 22 January 1879, in the [[Anglo-Zulu War]].]]