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Grenadiers, 22nd and 24th Regiments of Foot, and 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1751 c. 1751-60
Oil on canvas | 41.2 x 51.2 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 405585
David Morier (1705?-70)
Grenadiers, 22nd and 24th Regiments of Foot, and 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers, 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. Three soldiers, full-length, standing, facing the spectator, in an extensive landscape with a cottage on the left; the soldier on the left leans against a large barrel; military manoeuvres are being conducted on a plain in the background.
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
41.2 x 51.2 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
53.9 x 63.7 x 5.0 cm (frame, external)
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