Benedict Arnold and John Andre

A commission I did for depicting the first (and only) meeting of Revolutionary War spies Benedict Arnold and the doomed Major John Andre. She wanted a moonlit scene on the banks of the Hudson where the two men were portrayed with dignity, since apparently the one image we could find illustrating the meeting showed Arnold and Andre skulking in the bushes.

Arnold was an interesting guy, but I think it's clear my sympathies are with Andre here. Here Arnold is telling him he's terribly sorry his ship has left him, that he'll have to go off on foot, and oh here's a map, good luck! As you can imagine, this did not end well for Andre, who was shortly captured and hanged.