Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Surrender of Breda
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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Velazquez-The_Surrender_of_Breda.jpg/545px-Velazquez-The_Surrender_of_Breda.jpg)
- Reason
- Interesting near-contemporary depiction of a historic event, and one which has its own article as well!
- Articles in which this image appears
- The Surrender of Breda, Siege of Breda (1624) and many, many more
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
- Creator
- Diego Velázquez
- Support as nominator – — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:25, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
- Support - "one of the most Spanish of all pictures"? But why do they look so happy? Shouldn't they look a bit depressed or what? Hafspajen (talk) 17:17, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
- Well, I'm thinking that Velazquez (as a Spaniard) took a bit of a triumphalist approach... wouldn't blame him, if this was one of Spain's last victories in the war. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 17:22, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
- Support - Great scan. (side note: I feel as if the guy on the left is looking right at me.) APK whisper in my ear 12:47, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- Support Adam Cuerden (talk) 12:02, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
- Support – I'm not sure about the FP category though, it should perhaps be Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others. – Editør (talk) 12:49, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Promoted File:Velazquez-The Surrender of Breda.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 16:26, 8 February 2015 (UTC)