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Originally Posted by David R

I would suggest one exception to the fantasists, the above Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin. His paintings of the Central Asian campaigns were realistic enough that both the Austrian and the Russian authorities forbade their troops from visiting his exhibitions.

interesting sites on him and his work:

https://www.wikiart.org/en/vasily-vereshchagin/

https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/di...coll4/id/47935

https://archive.org/details/exhibiti...ge/n7/mode/2up