NAM.1998-04-23-1

Mrs Juliana Eleanora Belson (née Anderson-Moorhead) (1767-1855), 1805 (c). Miniature portrait in watercolour on ivory, unknown artist, 1805 (c). In this oval head and shoulder portrait, Juliana Belson wears a light blue dress with white muslin collar held by pearls and a muslin ‘turban-style’ hair covering. In a glazed, gold solid-backed frame. Juliana Anderson-Moorhead was the daughter of Colonel Anderson-Moorhead. She married Lieutenant George Belson (1763-1853) in 1786. George Belson was commissioned into the Corps of Marines as a Second Lieutenant on 6 May 1778 and served with the Chatham Division. He was promoted to Barrack Master of the Marines at Chatham in 1782.