Lot 2142
ARTHUR WILLIAM DEVIS (1762-1822)
PORTRAIT OF CAPT. THE HON. HENRY DUNDAS SHORE, 3rd SON OF THE 1ST LORD TEIGNMOUTH (1800-1826)
Quarter length, wearing dress uniform, with shoulder belt, boss and prickers, oil on canvas
74.5 x 62cm.
Provenance: By descent in the family of the sitter.
* The sitter served with the 11th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons as Cornet in 1818, then in the 4th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoon Guards (being promoted to Lieutenant in November 1822) before becoming Captain in the Royal Marines in 1826. He was unmarried. Shore died in Lourmarin, France in April 1826 and his funeral was a grand affair: "The pall was borne by officers of the French army. As the procession passed through the streets, which were densely crowded - as holiday had been granted to the people of the neighbourhood - its progress was indicated by volleys from the carbines of the gendarmerie and the same martial tribute was bestowed at the grave." (from `Memoir of the Life and Correspondence of John, Lord Shore`, vol.2)
