Fine quality, jewel like early 19th century miniature gouache portrait of Michael Henry Fock 3rd Baron de Robeck in military uniform. He is depicted full length within a mountainous landscape wearing the uniform of Cornet in the 7th Hussars.Baron de Robeck is a title of the head of the Irish Fock family which has its origins in Sweden. Jakob Constantin Fock, a Swedish landowner, had bought the R�b�ck estate in the parish of Medelplana, Skaraborg County in the province of Vastergotland and after serving as the acting governor there three times, he was created a friherre in 1778 by King Gustav III. His son Johan Henrik, after fighting in the American War of Independence, moved to England and was naturalised as a British subject under the name ''John Henry Fock, called Baron de Robeck'', by an Act of the British Parliament in 1789.John Michael Henry Fock 3rd Baron De Robeck (1790 - 1856) John Michael Henry was the son of John Henry Fock, 2nd Baron de Robeck and Anne Fitz-Patrick. John Henry Fock, 2nd Baron de Robeck (1753-1817) is the sitter in a painting dated 1791 by George Stubbs (1724-1806) �Portrait of Baron de Robeck riding a Bay Hunter�.John Michael Henry was (an unknown value) on 14 July 1790. He gained the rank of Cornet in July 1808 in the 7th Hussars and he is depicted wearing this uniform. He fought in the Peninsular Wars, serving with General Sir John Moore in Spain. He succeeded as the 3rd Baron de Robeck on 22 September 1817. His marriage in 1820 to the Hon. Mary Lawless, daughter of Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, became a subject of much gossip when she divorced him to marry Lord Sussex Lennox. He married, secondly, Emily Elizabeth Henry daughter of John Joseph Henry and Lady Emily Elizabeth Fitzgerald in 1830. He held the office of High Sheriff of County Kildare in 1834. He held the office of High Sheriff of County Dublin in 1838. He held the office of High Sheriff of County Wicklow. He died in Octob...