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Private, 8th The King's Royal Irish Hussars. c. 1833
Oil on canvas | 25.3 x 30.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 400802

Attributed to Henry Alken (1780?-1850)
Private, 8th The King's Royal Irish Hussars c. 1833
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Henry Alken's interest was mainly in horses and in their part in sport. He did a few military works and in these did not concern himself much with accuracy of detail of dress. Full-length, mounted on a trotting bay horse, in profile to the left, the private in Hussar uniform, his head turned to the front with a sword over his right shoulder, in an extensive landscape with grey sky.
Provenance
Possibly commissioned by William IV; recorded in the Equerries Room at Windsor Castle in 1878
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Oil on canvas
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25.3 x 30.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
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British Cavalry: Private, 8th The King's Royal Irish Hussars.