ARed Dead Redemption 2stagecoach robbery mission features a famous 18th-century painting of George Washington that sold for more than $20 million at auction in real life, a player shared online. The works of a wide variety of artists, including some influential American painters, can be found scattered throughout the massive open world ofRed Dead Redemption 2.
Widely regarded as one ofRockstar Games' best releases,Red Dead Redemption 2follows the adventures of outlaw Arthur Morgan across the fictional US states of Ambarino, Lemoyne, New Austin, New Hanover, and West Elizabeth in 1899. The title offers all sorts of activities for players to engage in, ranging from simple tasks like fishing and hunting to criminal endeavors like robbing banks and stagecoaches. One such heist inRed Dead Redemption 2, a gamer pointed out, forces players to nab and flip a portrait of an American Founding Father.
A recent Reddit post from user Bagged__bolts that has received more than 7,600 upvotes called attention to a stagecoach robberymission inRed Dead Redemption 2that features a 1779 painting of George Washington by Charles Wilson Peale. The work,Washington at Princeton, depicts the first American president leaning on a cannon following the Continental Army’s victory at the Battle of Princeton during the American Revolutionary War. British auction house Christie’s sold the portrait, which is currently housed in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, for around $21.3 million in 2006, according to areport by NBC News.
The heist highlighted by Bagged__bolts is among the six special stagecoach robberies that are available inRed Dead Redemption 2. This particular mission and two others can be accessed by talking to train station clerk Alden Carruthers, while the rest of the robberies are tipped off by Hector Barlow. Community members joked that Arthur, considered by many to be one ofRockstar Games' best protagonists, was seemingly scammed in the heist that involved the George Washington painting, as turning in the loot to Seamus would only net a reward of $40 despite the portrait being worth approximately $674,900 in 1899.
Aside fromWashington at Princeton,Rockstar Games' highly rated titlefeatures the works of other well-known artists, including pieces by American landscape illustrator Thomas Cole, French Rococo style follower Francois Boucher, and Italian Realism painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. While a2020 studyconducted by researchers at Abertay University in Scotland concluded thatRed Dead Redemption 2was not historically accurate, critics have praised the game’s attention to detail and immersive world.
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America, 1899. The end of the wild west era has begun as lawmen hunt down the last remaining outlaw gangs. Those who will not surrender or succumb are killed. After a robbery goes badly wrong in the western town of Blackwater, Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang are forced to flee. With federal agents and the best bounty hunters in the nation massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal and fight their way across the rugged heartland of America in order to survive. As deepening internal divisions threaten to tear the gang apart, Arthur must make a choice between his own ideals and loyalty to the gang who raised him. From the creators of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2 is an epic tale of life in America at the dawn of the modern age.
