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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Richardson served during the American War of Independence (1775-1783). He was amongst Lord Cornallis's force which occupied Yorktown in July 1781. Mosnier was one of the first émigré painters to flee to London from the French Revolution in 1790. Between 1791-6, he exhibited no less than 32 paintings at the Royal Academy. He later became court painter to the Tsar. | Subjects: | portrait (Richardson Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Francis); military and war | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Mosnier, Jean Laurent (French painter, 1743-1808) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8594... | Go to resource |
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