James Ward R.A. (1769-1859) Portrait of the Cossack Tamorfait Carnborlof Signed

James Ward R.A. (1769-1859)

Portrait of the Cossack Tamorfait Carnborlof

Signed, dated July 1814 and inscribed Cossack/Tamorfait Carnborlof/King Street Barracks also inscribed It was stated that this man killed 14 Frenchmen one morn. 9 before breakfast

Pencil, inscribed in ink

28.5 x 22cm; 11¼ x 8½in

Provenance:

A study for a figure in an oil painting commissioned by the Duke of Northumberland titled Portraits of Prince Platoff's favourite charger and of Four of his Cossacks exhibited RA 1815 (no.148). Ward depicted this soldier on at least two other occasions. There is a drawing of him in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and another in the collection of the Duke of Wellington