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Bannalist and Pandour, 'Freikorps Trenck'. c. 1748
Oil on canvas | 40.9 x 50.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 403392
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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. Two soldiers standing facing the spectator in a flat, open landscape, holding rifles in their right hands resting on the ground; that on the right wearing scarlet uniform, head turned half right; that on the left in blue with red boots.
Provenance
Commissioned by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland; probably 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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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
40.9 x 50.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
54.5 x 64.7 x 5.3 cm (frame, external)