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Title: 19th Century Military Oil Painting Portrait Red Tunic Coat Victorian Officer

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1 British 19th Century Military Oil Painting Portrait Of A Red Tunic Coat Victorian Officer In Uniform.

Impress your clients & guests in your home or office make a big statment with this military artwork that will suite your interior design theme.

Title “Red Coat Victorian British Officer Lieutenant Colonel”.

A rather nice display with the frame being 68 cm high and 60 cm wide.

Subject side profile view portrait half length view of a military British red coat 19th century army officer who is wearing his smart regimental military red with brass buttoned tunic uniform.

He has dark blue eyes, having strong typical masculime feaatures, prominent jawline, a large bushy moustache, aristocratic nose, with thick dark hair, healty skin complexion looking to the right.

Having the Queen Victoria Crown Pip- Rank of Lieutenant Colonel, showing a single star beneath a crown. A lieutenant colonel commands an infantry battalion, artillery regiment or cavalry regiment. They are responsible for the unit both in the field and when stationed in barracks. Badges for field officers were first introduced in 1810. These badges consisted of crowns and stars. The star is that of the Order of the Bath.

The colour red he is wearing signifies that he is representing the Royal Crown.

Rather nice hue colours with the red & golden also brown thats stand out.

Unsigned, British School.

So collectible and extremely sought after by collectors.

Oil on canvas.

Circa late 19th century.

Set in a traditional original gilt frame.

With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home display.

A good easy to display in any home compact size being 68 cm high and 60 cm width of the frame.

Inscribed verso Mr Miles Lampson, biography of notable former owner Miles Wedderburn Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn, GCMG, CB, MVO, PC (24 August 1880 – 18 September 1964) was a British diplomat. Miles Lampson was the son of Norman Lampson, and grandson of Sir Curtis Lampson, 1st Baronet. His mother was Helen, daughter of Peter Blackburn, MP for Stirlingshire. He was educated at Eton. Lampson entered the Foreign Office in 1903. He served as Secretary to Garter Mission, Japan, in 1906, as 2nd Secretary at Tokyo, Japan, between 1908 and 1910, as 2nd Secretary at Sofia, Bulgaria in 1911, as 1st Secretary at Peking in 1916, as Acting British High Commissioner in Siberia in 1920 and as British Minister to China between 1926 and 1933. In 1934 he was appointed High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan. As a result of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty in December 1936, to which Lampson was a signatory Britain loosened its grip on Egypt and the post title was changed to Ambassador to Egypt and High Commissioner for the Sudan in 1936. Lampson continued in this office until 1946.

As ambassador to Egypt he forced King Farouk I to change the cabinet to a Wafdist one through surrounding the king's palace with tanks in the Abdeen Palace incident of 1942. He was then Special Commissioner in Southeast Asia between 1946 and 1948. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1941 and raised to the peerage as Baron Killearn, of Killearn in the County of Stirling, on 17 May 1943. He was also awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon of Japan[3] and the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon of Japan. Lord Killearn died in September 1964, aged 84, and was succeeded in the barony by his son by his first marriage, Graham. As Graham died without male heirs, the title subsequently passed to Lord Killearn's son from his second marriage, Victor. The 3rd Lord Killearn took legal action in 2011 to prevent his mother selling off the family home, Haremere Hall.

Provenance: Private collection of Mr Miles Lampson, Bonhams, Oxford, April 2015, auction labels verso & in collection of Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD.

Red coat, also referred to as redcoat or scarlet tunic, was a military garment which was widely (though not exclusively) used by the infantry units of the British military, including the British Army and Royal Marines, from the 16th to 19th centuries.

The garment was also widely used by the British Colonial Auxiliary Forces and the British Indian Army during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Though by the 20th centuries the red coat was abandoned for practical duties in favour of khaki by all British and Commonwealth military units, it continues to be used for ceremonial full dress and mess dress uniforms. The usage of red coats by English soldiers dates back to the Tudor period, when the Yeomen of the Guard and the Yeomen Warders were both equipped in the royal colours of the House of Tudor, red and gold. During the Tudor conquest of Ireland and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, units of English soldiers were equipped in red coats, most notably the New Model Army, which fought on the Parliamentary side.

From the mid-17th century to the 19th century, the uniform of most British soldiers (apart from artillery, rifles and light cavalry) included a madder red coat or coatee. From 1873 onwards, the more vivid shade of scarlet was adopted for all ranks, having previously been worn only by officers, sergeants and all ranks of some cavalry regiments.

Condition report.

Offered in fine used condition.

The painting surface has various foxing staining & craquelure, paint fading & minor paint losses, also having had a small paint touch up to his upper red uniform just below his collar also lower down near the bottom, patch repair shown verso. Varnish discolouration as shown & frame stretcher lines showing through.

The frame having various old repairs, general noticeable wear, scuffs, scratches, chips losses to the frame commensurate with usage & old age..

Dimensions in centimetres of the frame

High (68 cm)
Wide (60 cm)
Depth (1.5 cm)

Reserve: $3,836.00

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19th Century Military Oil Painting Portrait Red Tunic Coat Victorian Officer

Name: 19th Century Military Oil Painting Portrait Red Tunic Coat Victorian Officer
SKU: 225794250
Price: 1900 USD
Availability: InStock