Admiral The Hon. Charles Elphinstone Fleeming (1774-1840), in blue coat with brass buttons, pale yellow waistcoat with thin blue stripe, white knotted cravat

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GEORGE ENGLEHEART (BRITISH, 1750-1829)
Admiral The Hon. Charles Elphinstone Fleeming (1774-1840), in blue coat with brass buttons, pale yellow waistcoat with thin blue stripe, white knotted cravat
signed with initial 'E' (lower right) and signed and dated in full on the backing card 'G Engleheart Pinxit 1798 - '
oval, 3 in. (76 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame, the reverse inscribed 'Admiral The Hon^ble Charles Elphinstone Fleeming'

Provenance

By direct family descent.

Literature

G.C. Williamson/H.L.D. Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829 Miniature Painter to George III, London, 1902, p. 95.

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Lot Essay

Admiral The Hon. Charles Elphinstone Fleeming (1774-1840), second son of the 11th Lord Elphinstone took the name Fleeming when he inherited Cumbernauld House from his Fleeming grandmother, daughter of the Earl of Wigton. He served in Gibraltar as Commander-in-Chief and in 1816, at the age of forty-two, married Catalina Paulina Alessandro of Cadiz, aged 16, daughter of Louis Alessandro of Ancona, Italy and Antonia Felipes of Gibraltar. At the end of his career in the navy, Charles served as Governor of the Royal Naval Hospital in Greenwich, which was placed under great strain and treated its highest number of patients during the Napoleonic era.
Williamson/Engleheart (loc. cit.) record that Capt. Elphinston (sic) sat to Engleheart in 1798. Five miniatures by George Engleheart of members of the Elphinstone family were sold Christie's, London, 11 May 1994, lots 83-87.

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