Grenadiers, 43rd, 44th and 45th Regiments of Foot, 1751 c. 1751-60
Oil on canvas | 40.8 x 51.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 405586
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Morier was a Swiss military and sporting painter who started working for William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-65) in 1747, when he painted a series of pictures of troops under his command. From 1752 until 1764 he was employed as ‘limner’ (painter) to the Duke on an annual salary of £100; his name also appears regularly in royal accounts from 1764 to 1767. Three soldiers, full-length, standing in a landscape with a tree in the centre and a sentry box on the right; the soldier on the left faces half to the right, the central soldier faces the spectator and the third soldier faces half to the left.
Provenance
Probably painted for William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, and one of the 114 'Pictures of Miltary Costume' of these dimensions (1ft 4in x 1ft 8in) recorded in the Upper Library at Buckingham Palace in 1819 (no 984)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
40.8 x 51.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
53.8 x 63.8 x 5.0 cm (frame, external)
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