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.

This painting shows two Grenadiers, full-length, standing, in a landscape. The soldier on the left, facing the spectator, unfixes his bayonet and the right hand soldier marches half to the left. It comes from a series of 61 paintings forming an Order of Battle of Allied Troops under the command of the Duke of Cumberland in the Low Countries in 1747-48.