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 bush in the foreground on the left; on the left, a Grenadier walks to the left, his musket on his shoulder; in the centre, another, holding his musket behind his back.