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Portrait of Captain Francis Garratt

Richard Augustus Clack, 1841

Courtesy the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Regimental Museum. Photo: Roderick Mckenzie-Smith
Courtesy the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Regimental Museum. Photo: Roderick Mckenzie-Smith Courtesy the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Regimental Museum. Photo: Roderick Mckenzie-Smith

This impressive military portrait shows Captain Francis Garratt, a cavalry officer in the 3rd (Prince of Wales’) Regiment of Dragoon Guards. Garratt served with the regiment between 1832 and 1848, mainly on peacekeeping duties during a period of great social unrest in England and Ireland.

Richard Augustus Clack grew up in Devon and became a successful portrait painter in London, exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts between 1830 and 1857. It was probably in 1842, when Garratt’s soldierbrother Thomas was briefly in England, that Francis and Thomas sat for Clack.

Garratt’s portrait now forms the backdrop to a new case of uniforms of the Dragoon Guards at the regimental museum in Edinburgh.

More information

Title of artwork, date

Portrait of Captain Francis Garratt, 1841

Date supported

2018

Medium and material

Oil

Dimensions

176 x 150

Grant

7200

Total cost

14400

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