Major General Charles Ashe Windham KCB (1810-1870) as a young Subaltern
N. M. (fl.1830)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1830
Materials
Paper
Measurements
294 x 252 mm
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Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1396350
Summary
A portrait composed of a grey wash, heightened with white (& black?) chalk on paper of Major General Charles Ashe Windham, KCB (1810-1870), by N.M. (fl.1830). The subject is shown as a young subaltern in a three-quarter-length portrait. The young man is seated against a rock, with a distant landscape of hills and three crosses. The portrait is signed below his right elbow 'N.M.' c.1830.He later became Major General Windham, and distinguished himself at the assault on the Redan, Crimea. He was the son of Vice-Admiral William (Lukin) Windham and Anne Thellusson. He married Marianne Catherine Emily Beresford, daughter of Admiral Sir John de la Poer Beresford, 1st Bart. and Harriet Elizabeth Peirse, on 1st March 1849. He died on 2nd February 1870.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969).
Makers and roles
N. M. (fl.1830)