Comte d'Escars, full face in dark green coat with crimson piping and silver-embroidered crimson collar, silver epaulettes and lacing, white shirt and black stock, the silver buttons engraved with crowned initials 'C', wearing the Royal French Orders of Saint-Louis, the Lys, and the Legion of Honour, curly brown hair and sidewhiskers, cloudy sky background

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JOHN JULES NIMMO (c. 1830 - after 1881)
Comte d'Escars, full face in dark green coat with crimson piping and silver-embroidered crimson collar, silver epaulettes and lacing, white shirt and black stock, the silver buttons engraved with crowned initials 'C', wearing the Royal French Orders of Saint-Louis, the Lys, and the Legion of Honour, curly brown hair and sidewhiskers, cloudy sky background
signed 'Nimmo d'ap[rès] Millet' (mid-left)
oval, 36 in. (78 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular ebonized wood frame

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Amédée de Pérusse (1790-1868), Vicomte, later Comte and, in 1825, Duc d'Escars (also spelled des Cars) was an Aide-de-Camp of the Duc d'Angoulême and major des gardes du corps de Monsieur. He married one of Madame de Tourzel's daughters, became a Peer of France in 1822 and emigrated with King Charles X in 1830.

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