Watercolour portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget, 4th Light Dragoons, Dublin 1850, by Michael Angelo Hayes (1820-1877).
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Michael Angelo Hayes. R.H.A. (1820-1877), Watercolour Portrait Of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget 4th (Queen's Own) Light Dragoons, Dublin 1850.
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Lieut-Colonel Paget is depicted in full dress with is sword drawn at the 'swept-down' salute position, in blue coatee with scarlet facings, gold rank lace to cuff and collar, gold box epaulettes, blue overalls with double lace stripe, 1840 pattern shako with cock's feather plume, cap and body lines, pouch and belt and scarlet and gold barrel sash.
His charger is adorned with the dress shabraque, throat plume and distinctive gold lace or gilt metal-work headband.
Four troopers are shown to the left, a junior officer and senior NCO to the right.
Signed and dated on the reverse, 33.5 x 25.5cm, contained in a period glazed frame, slight foxing to the sky area.
Footnotes:
Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget, 6th son of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, born 16th March 1818 .
Cornet & Sub Lieut., 1st Life Guards, 25th July 1834, by purchase .
Lieut, 1st Life Guards, 1 December 1837, by purchase.
Captain, 4th (Queen's Own) Light Dragoons, 17th June 1842, by purchase.
Major, 30 January 1846, 4th LD, by purchase.
Lieut-Colonel, 29 December 1846, by purchase.
Colonel in the Army, 20 June 1854.
Major General, 11 November 1861.
Lieut-General, 28 February 1871.
General, 1 October 1877.
He held the command of the 4th Light Dragoons from December 1846 until May 1857.
He commanded the regiment at the battles of the Alma, and Balaclava and led the regiment in the Charge of the Light Brigade. He commanded the Light Cavalry Brigade at Inkerman, Tchernaya and at the Siege of Sebastopol.
For part of 1855 he commanded the Cavalry Division.
He received the Crimean Medal with 4 clasps, Sardinian War Medal, Order of the Medjedi (3rd Class), the Turkish Medal and was made an Officer of the Legion d'Honneur (4th Class).
He was Inspector General of Cavalry 1865-1870 , Colonel of the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards 1868-1874 , and Colonel of the 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars 1874-1880.
Created a Companion of the Order of the Bath 1854 and elevated to a KCB in 1871.
He commanded the cavalry at Aldershot 1860-1862 and the Sirhin Division of the Bengal Army 1862-1865.
He died at 1 Farm Street, Mayfair, London, 30th June 1880. (The Army List still shows him in the February 1881 issue).
Sold for £1,560 inc. premium.
[Source: http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/18110/lot/199/ (accessed 7th November 2012)].
