Makriyannis has the battle painted

1836–1839 Probable

In the later 1830s Makriyannis asked the folk painter Panagiotis Zografos and his sons to paint the battles of the Revolution as he remembered them. One of the series shows the Battle of the Mills of Nafplio, with the mills, the shore and the ships in the gulf.

Read the full story: Myloi, 200 years ago: the battle broke out

Where

The water mills

Who

Panagiotis Zografos, Ioannis Makriyannis

Threads

The Revolution of 1821

Certainty

Probable likely, but not fully proven

Pictures

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  Panagiotis Zografos for General Makriyannis (c. 1836–39), plate 14: the Battle of the Mills (Myloi) near Nafplio, June 1825. Public domain

Sources

• Panagiotis Zografos and sons, series of paintings for I. Makriyannis, c. 1836–1839, no. 14 «Μάχη των Μύλων της Ναυπλίας» (Visit Myloi archive)