Grenadier, 49th Regiment of Foot, and Fifer and Drummer, Foot Guards, 1751 c. 1751-60
Oil on canvas | 40.6 x 50.9 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 405596
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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 a landscape with hills beyond; the Grenadier, 49th Foot, holds his rifle over his right shoulder; the Fifer, wearing a striped coat, plays his fife.
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
40.6 x 50.9 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
54.6 x 64.3 x 5.0 cm (frame, external)
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