rule, during the so-called Five Days (Italian: Le Cinque Giornate). The Austrians were forced to withdraw from Milan whilst the insurgents sought military aid from The Kingdom of Sardinia. Austrians forces led by Field Marshall Joseph Radetzky regathered and defeated Sardinian forces at the first Battle of Custoza and again, at the Battle of Novara. Albrecht Adam painted a series of commissioned paintings that depicted the events including a rather flattering canvass showing Radetsky on a white horse (id est Napoleon) with his general staff before the fall of Milan. In 1859 Adam followed the army of Napoleon III of France during the Italian campaign against Austria recording the action in a series of drawings and sketches. Returning to Munich he painted the Battle of Landshut 1809 (1859) and the Battle of Zorndorf 1758 (1860) for Maximilian II of Bavaria. He remained a significant military painter, often assisted by his sons, until his death in Munich on 16 August 1862. His brother Heinrich predeceased him by six months. In around 1850 Adam is recorded as living at Sing Straße 13 in Munich. Illustrations of works See also List of German painters Notes References 1786 births 1862 deaths People from Nördlingen Artists from Munich People from the Kingdom of Bavaria Equine artists 19th-century German painters German male painters 19th-century German male artists German landscape painters Court painters Military art 19th-century war artists 19th-century painters of historical subjects