Lieutenant-Colonel W. George Collier, facing right in scarlet coat of the Coldstream Guards, with gold bordered blue collar and facings, gold epaulettes, white cross sash with gilt-metal oval plate, white shirt and black stock, curling light brown hair

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JAMES LEAKEY (1775-1865)
Lieutenant-Colonel W. George Collier, facing right in scarlet coat of the Coldstream Guards, with gold bordered blue collar and facings, gold epaulettes, white cross sash with gilt-metal oval plate, white shirt and black stock, curling light brown hair
oval, 3 3/8 in. (85 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular black wood frame

Provenance

Dr. C. Montague Leakey, Goldsworthy House, Gunnislake, Cornwall (in 1932).
and by direct family descent.

Exhibited

Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Loan Exhibition of Early Devon Painters, 1932, no. 87.

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Lot Essay

Lieutenant-Colonel W. George Collier of the 1st Coldstream Guards was mortally wounded during the Peninsular Campaign 1808-1814, at the Battle of Bayonne on 14 April 1814 and died on 10 May. He is buried in the Guards Cemetery, near Bayonne.
This is after a miniature by George Engleheart, probably painted in 1807, sold Christie's, London, 10 November 1993, lot 60.

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