Lot Essay
This officer may well be Sir George Adam Wood, who commanded the Royal Artillery at Waterloo and was subsequently ADC to King George IV. He died in 1831.
Portrait of a Military Officer, three-quarter-length, in a dark blue coatee with frog-drop loops of gold embroidery and bearing an aiguillette on the right shoulder, wearing the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order and other decorations including the Waterloo medal
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Circle of Sir William Beechey (1753-1839)
Portrait of a Military Officer, three-quarter-length, in a dark blue coatee with frog-drop loops of gold embroidery and bearing an aiguillette on the right shoulder, wearing the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order and other decorations including the Waterloo medal
oil on canvas
50 x 40in. (127 x 101.6cm.)
Portrait of a Military Officer, three-quarter-length, in a dark blue coatee with frog-drop loops of gold embroidery and bearing an aiguillette on the right shoulder, wearing the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order and other decorations including the Waterloo medal
oil on canvas
50 x 40in. (127 x 101.6cm.)