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George Henry Laporte
"Hamaneuh", a grey Arab stallion, standing by a Tent in the desert with two Bedouins beyond
oil on canvas
28 x 33in (71 x 83cm)
"Hamaneuh", a grey Arab stallion, standing by a Tent in the desert with two Bedouins beyond
oil on canvas
28 x 33in (71 x 83cm)
Further details
Hamaneuh was the gift of the Shah of Persia to Sir John McNeil, G.C.B., who , in 1836 was appointed Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Shah and in 1841 the head of a mission as Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador. When the sculptor Sir John Steell, R.S.A., was commissioned to make the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, erected in Princes Street, Edinburgh, in 1852, he used Hamdaneuh as a model for the Duke's famous grey charger Copenhagen. The painting became the property of Miss Joanna Scott Moncrieff of Edinburgh, member of a well-known Scottish family. A bust of Sir John McNeil, also by Sir John Steell, is in the Edinburgh National Portrait Gallery.