Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this Victorian Military Officer Portrait to the Victorian era.
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,
Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this Victorian Military Officer Portrait to the Victorian era.
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Victorian Oil Painting Portrait Red Coat Officer Lieutenant Colonel
