Lot 266: ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE HENRY LAPORTE

ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE HENRY LAPORTE LONDON 1799 - 1873 PORTRAIT OF AN OFFICER OF DRAGOON GUARDS oil on canvas 141.5 by 111.5 cm.; 55 ¾ by 43 ½ in.

Possibly London, Royal Academy, 1804, no. 319 (as 'A British Light Dragoon')

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 31st October 1947, lot 145 (as a 'Portrait of Count d'Orsay by Sir Francis Grant');
with Wildenstein, 1966

The uniform of the sitter dates this picture to between 1832 and 1846, when the stiffened leather helmet with gilt fittings and a bearskin crest seen in the present painting were replaced with an all metal one with a falling horse hair tail. A second version of this picture is at Anglesey Abbey.