Portrait of Colonel Thomas Fitzgerald (1737-?), three-quarter-length, in uniform, his right hand resting on the hilt of his sword, a landscape beyond

Details

Thomas Hickey (Dublin 1741-1824 India)
Portrait of Colonel Thomas Fitzgerald (1737-?), three-quarter-length, in uniform, his right hand resting on the hilt of his sword, a landscape beyond
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm.)

Provenance

By descent from the sitter, when sold Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1984, lot 53.

Literature

Journal of the Army Historical Society, June 1961, p. 60, no. 158, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Colonel Fitzgerald of Ballinaparka, County Waterford and Newcastle, County Tipperary, was born in 1737. He sailed as ensign in the Royal George in 1759, aged 21, before being promoted Lieutenant of the Madras Infantry in 1759, then Captain in 1763 and Major in 1766. He was present at the siege of Madura in 1764 and was wounded; he retired in 1770.

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