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Grenadiers, 16th and 17th Regiments of Foot, and Grenadier and Drummer, 18th Royal Irish Regiment of Foot, 1751 c. 1751-60
Oil on canvas | 40.9 x 50.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 405583
David Morier (1705?-70)
Grenadiers, 16th and 17th Regiments of Foot, and Grenadier and Drummer, 18th Royal Irish Regiment of Foot, 1751 c. 1751-60
David Morier (1705?-70)
Grenadiers, 16th and 17th Regiments of Foot, and Grenadier and Drummer, 18th Royal Irish Regiment of Foot, 1751 c. 1751-60
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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. Five soldiers, full-length, resting on an embankment in a landscape; on the left, a drummer is seated with his drum beside him; in the foreground, a soldier holds a pitcher; another lies smoking at the top of the slope.
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
40.9 x 50.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
53.9 x 63.8 x 5.0 cm (frame, external)
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