Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An evocative “from life” portrait miniature of the Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington, K.G. &c., by Frederick Harding, in watercolour, oval-shaped, the lower left hand-side of the portrait inscribed in the artist’s hand, ‘F. Harding - from life’, and the reverse of the panel with further inscription, ‘Drawn from a Sketch taken from Life by F. Harding, August 1851’, 202mm. by 170mm., a little foxing but generally in excellent condition, rare and interesting, and undoubtedly one of the last “from Life” portraits ever made of the “Iron Duke” £400-500

Frederick Harding exhibited at the R.A. and S.B.A. between 1825 and 1857.