Portrait of Captain Francis Garratt
Richard Augustus Clack, 1841

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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