Lot 20 , A William IV oil on canvas hatchment, bearing the arms of Sir Colquhoun Grant (1772-1835)

A William IV oil on canvas hatchment, bearing the arms of Sir Colquhoun Grant (1772-1835), 159 x 159cm

12.14 All black background
Gules three antique crowns within a bordure engrailed or (Grant of Gartinbeg)
Within collars of the Guelphic Order and the order of the Bath
Crest: The trunk of an oak tree sprouting leaves with the sun shining thereon proper
Mantling: Gules and argent
Motto: Te favente virebo.
Supporters: Dexter, A mounted Dragoon of the 12th (Prince of Wales's) Royal Lancers; sinister, A mounted Hussar of the 15th (The King's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
Five orders pendant from the shield including the Bath and the Guelphic Order
For Lt-Gen Sir John Colquhoun Grant KCB GCH, last MP for Queenborough KEN, who married at St George Hanover Square 7 Aug 1810 Marcia, daughter of the Rev J Richards of Long Bredy DOR and died at Frampton DOR 20 Dec 1835 aged 61. His wife died 1818. His daughter eloped with Richard Brinsley Sheridan, grandson of the playwright.
Provenance: Brede Place, East Sussex, a former residence of the Frewen family from 1712-1936. The last member of the family to live there was Richard Brinsley Sheridan (died 1936), presumably a descendant of the General's daughter.
(Burke GA; House of Commons; P.R.s; PCC Will Dame Marcia Grant PROB 11/1611/369 30 Dec 1818; Brede Place, its History and Families)


Provenance- Brede Place, East Sussex, a former residence of the Frewen family from 1712-1936
£1,500-2,000
Lieutenant General Sir John Colquhoun Grant KCB GCH (1772-1835) was a British soldier. Grant was a groom of the bedchamber to Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, later King of Hanover. He was reputed to have been the strongest man in the British Army, and was given the nickname "The Black Giant." He fought in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, Siege of Seringapatam, French Revolutionary Wars,
and Napoleonic Wars- Battle of Sahagún, Battle of Vitoria, Battle of Waterloo. He was appointed colonel of the 12th (The Prince of Wales's) Royal Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers) in 1825. He transferred to the 15th (The King's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars) in 1827, succeeding the Duke of Cumberland, a post he held until his death in 1835. He had married Marcia, daughter of the Reverend J. Richards, of Long Bredy, Dorset. Their only surviving child, Marcia, eloped with Whig politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan in May 1835.
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Condition:
Oil on canvas relined many years ago, canvas shows some slight undulation, paint a little dirty but essentially good condition, housed in a later moulded mahogany frame