NAM.1996-07-108-1
Key to the portraits of General Eliott and his officers in the painting of the Siege of Gibraltar, 14 September 1782. Oil on canvas by George Carter (1737-1795), 1784. Portraits of the 24 staff officers on the right hand side of the painting, with a numbered key below giving their names. Left to right: 1. Lieutenant-Colonel von Schreppegill (or Sclippergill), De La Motte’s Hanoverian Regiment 2. gesturing with hat in hand towards the conflagration Lieutenant-Colonel Ernst August von Hugo, Hardenberg’s Hanoverian Regiment 3. Lieutenant-Colonel William Kellett, 39th Regiment of Foot 4. holding a cane and taking a pinch of snuff Major-General August De La Motte, Commander of the Hanoverian Brigade 5. Lieutenant-General Robert Boyd, Lieutenant Governor, Colonel of the 39th Regiment of Foot 6. Captain William Wilson, Aide-de-Camp to General Boyd, 39th Regiment of Foot 7. handing a note to General Elliot Major Charles Valloton, Aide-de-Camp to the Governor, 56th Regiment of Foot 8. Lieutenant-General George Augustus Eliott KB, [later Lord Heathfield], Governor [and] Commander-in-Chief 9. holding up an eyeglass Lieutenant-Colonel Gavin Cochrane, 58th Regiment of Foot, 10. Major-General William Picton, Colonel of 12th Regiment of Foot 11. holding a rolled plan of the defences Major-General William Green, Chief Engineer 12. Lieutenant Charles Holloway, Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Green, Corps of Royal Engineers 13. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Trigge, 12th Regiment of Foot 14. Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Phipps, Corps of Royal Engineers 15. Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Craig, 56th Regiment of Foot 16. Major Vaughan Lloyd, Royal Artillery 17. Major George Grove, Royal Artillery 18. Lieutenant-Colonel George Gledstanes, 72nd Regiment of Foot, or Royal Manchester Volunteers 19. Lieutenant-Colonel William Macintosh, 97th Regiment of Foot 20. Lieutenant-Colonel Gustav Friedrich von Dachenhausen, Redan’s Hanoverian Regiment 21. Major Philip Martin, Royal Artillery 22. Major Joseph Eyre, Royal Artillery 23. seated Lieutenant-Colonel George Lewis, Royal Artillery 24. Lieutenant-Colonel George Mackenzie, 2nd Battalion 73rd (Highland)Regiment of Foot
Gibraltar, Siege of, 1779-83 (American War of Independence, Gibraltar 1779-1783)
