Captain, later Major General, Charles Ashe Windham, KCB (1810-1870)
George Clint, ARA (London 1770 - Kensington 1854)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1833
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
770 x 620 mm
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1401208
Caption
The sitter was the second son of Admiral Lukin, and a captain in the Coldstream Guards, the uniform of which he is shown wearing. He led the assault on the Redan in the Crimean War in 1855, and was subsequently promoted to Major-General. It was he who petitioned for the holding of the judicial enquiry, ‘De Lunatico Inquirendo, to certify that his nephew, William Frederick Windam (1840-66) was insane. The case collapsed, and Windham inherited Felbrigg in 1854.
Summary
An oil painting on canvas of Captain, later Major General, Charles Ashe Windham, KCB (1810-1870) by George Clint, ARA (London 1770 – Kensington 1854). A half-length portrait of a young man, turned to the left, glancing to the right, wearing a red uniform. He was the second son of Admiral Lukin, and a captain in the Coldstream Guards,;he subsequently led the assault on the Redan in the Crimean War (1855), and was promoted to Major-General. 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 Bt. and Harriet Elizabeth Peirse, on 1 March 1849. He died on 2 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
George Clint, ARA (London 1770 - Kensington 1854)