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Portrait of Major General Norman MacLeod, CB of Gillen (1770-1831) half length, in a General officer's uniforminscribed with the name of the copyist and the date 1915 on the reverseoil on canvas74.5 x 61.5cmProvenance: By descent from the issue of the sitter's granddaughter Augusta Mary Annesley (d. 1902)The sitter married in 1801 Lady Hester Annabella Annesley, daughter and eventual sole heiress of George, 2nd and last Earl of Mountnorris. He had a distinguished military career in South America, in the Peninsular War and then from 1810 onwards had notable service in India, being promoted to Major General in 1819. He was lost at sea in 1831 when a steamer on which he was travelling to Ireland was shipwrecked.MacLeod is depicted in a British General officer’s uniform of the period, which he would have worn whilst serving on the Staff of the Madras Presidency Army.We are grateful to Christopher Joll, Regimental Historian of the Household Cavalry, for his assistance with this catalogue entry.

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