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''George III and the Prince of Wales Reviewing Troops'' was an oil on canvas painting by King George III and the Prince of Wales Reviewing the 3rd (or The Prince of Wales's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards and the 10th (or The Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, 1797 (c)
''George III and the Prince of Wales Reviewing Troops'' was an oil on canvas painting by William Beechey
Sir William Beechey (12 December 175328 January 1839) was an English portraitist during the golden age of British painting.
Early life
Beechey was born at Burford, Oxfordshire, on 12 December 1753, the son of William Beechey, a solicitor, an ...
, showing George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
and his sons George, Prince of Wales and Frederick, Duke of York at an imagined review in Hyde Park
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* Hyde Park, London, a Royal Park in Central London
* Hyde Park, Leeds, an inner-city area of north-west Leeds
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* Hyde Park, in Hyde, Greater Manchester
Austra ...
. George rides Adonis (his favourite horse), whilst the Prince of Wales wears the uniform of the 10th Light Dragoons, of which he was colonel. Beside Frederick is David Dundas (Quartermaster General, who had commanded manoeuvres at Windsor
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**Shire of Windsor, a former local government authority around Wi ...
and Weymouth before the king) and the painting also shows Philip Goldsworthy
Philip Goldsworthy (~1737 – 1801), was a British Army officer. He was a Member of Parliament for Wilton and chief equerry to King George III. Goldsworthy was a Lieutenant General and Colonel of The Royals.
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Goldswo ...
(one of the king's equerries and aides-de-camp) and William Fawcett William or Bill Fawcett or ''variation'', may refer to:
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* William Fawcett (actor) (1894–1974), American actor who was awarded the ''Légion d'honneur''
* William Fawcett (author) (1902–1941), English journalist and writer on horses, hun ...
, the 3rd Dragoon Guards' Colonel.
The painting was commissioned by George III and exhibited at the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...
exhibition in 1798. The preliminary sketches do not include the Prince of Wales – though he later sat to Beechey for the work, some versions of it survive without him. The original was hanging in State Dining Room at Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. It is strongly associated with the English and succeeding British royal family, and embodies almost a millennium of architectural history.
The original cast ...
at the time of the 1992 fire and – too large to move out – it was the only painting to be destroyed. (Its place is now filled by the similarly sized 1751 group portrait of George III, his mother, brothers and sisters by George Knapton
George Knapton (1698–1778) was an English portrait painter and the first portraitist for the Society of Dilettanti in the 1740s. He became Surveyor and Keeper of the King's Pictures from 1765 to 1778.
Life and work
Knapton was born in Chri ...
.)
A smaller version survives in the collection of the National Army Museum
The National Army Museum is the British Army's central museum. It is located in the Chelsea district of central London, adjacent to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the home of the "Chelsea Pensioners". The museum is a non-departmental public body. ...
, probably copied around 1830 by Beechey's son George Duncan Beechey
George Duncan Beechey (1798 – 6 December 1852) was an English portrait painter.
Life and career
Beechey was the fourth child of two painters, Sir William Beechey and his second wife, Anne Jessop.John Wilson, ‘Beechey, Sir William (1753–1 ...
.National Army Museum
The National Army Museum is the British Army's central museum. It is located in the Chelsea district of central London, adjacent to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the home of the "Chelsea Pensioners". The museum is a non-departmental public body. ...
.
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