George Engleheart (1750/3-1829)

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George Engleheart (1750/3-1829)

Lieutenant Colonel George Collier, facing right in scarlet uniform of the Coldstream Guards

signed with initial, gold frame with plaited hair reverse
oval, 3 1/4in. (82mm.) high

Literature

Williamson and Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829 Miniature Painter to George III, London, 1902, p. 92

Lot Essay

Lieutenant Colonel George Collier was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bayonne and is buried in the Guards Cemetry, near Bayonne.

A Captain Collier is recorded in George Engleheart's fee book in 1807.
We are grateful to Colonel Walton of the Army Museum Ogilby Trust for his help in preparing this catalogue entry

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