December 10-13, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2024
Unknown German[?] artist. "Portrait of an Officer of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment, c. 1776." Oil on canvas, 16 1/2 x 13 inches, within carved, black-painted frame. The first portrait to come to light of an officer of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment, a German regiment raised in 1776 specifically for service in America and which served in America from the Long Island campaign of 1776 until its capture following the surrender of the British-held Pensacola, Florida to the Spanish army under Bernardo Galvez in 1781. The regiment's uniform was distinctive, blue faced yellow with lapel buttons set on 1-2-3 and the officer's buttons and epaulettes of silver, with white smallclothes His right hand holds his cocked hat with white plume, while tents from the regiment's cantonment are seen in the background. CONDITION: Very good, recently conserved; during conservation, the wooden strainer was found to be infested with wood-boring beetles and it was removed and remounted to a new stretcher, the original canvas reinforced only with edge lining; only a few scattered spots of inpaint, with very minor loss pigment at the bottom left corner.