Not on display
- Artist
- Thomas Gainsborough 1727–1788
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 737 × 597 mm
frame: 926 × 800 × 85 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by Thomas Bruce Ismay 1963
- Reference
- T00642
Display caption
The sitter is unknown, but the uniform has been identified as that worn by the 16th Light Dragoons between the years 1759 and 1766. This accords well with Gainborough's style of the early to mid 1760s, when he was working in Bath. There is a possibility that it might be Robert Williams (1745 - after 1775) who was a Lieutenant in the 16th Light Dragoons in 1762, Captain in 1768, Major in 1773, and who left the Army when he married Anne Leigh of Ivor in 1775. A nineteenth-century identification of he sitter as General James Wolfe is untenable.
Gallery label, August 2004
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