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Major-General (later General) Sir James Kempt GCB (1764-1854), Lieutenant-Governor Fort William and Colonel of the 81st Regiment of Foot, 1820 (c)
oil on canvas, oil painting
Accession Number

NAM.1959-11-278-1

Description

Major-General (later General) Sir James Kempt GCB (1764-1854), Lieutenant-Governor Fort William and Colonel of the 81st Regiment of Foot, 1820 (c). Oil on canvas by Samuel Lane (1780-1859), 1820 (c). Sir James Kempt served as a major-general on Wellington’s staff in Spain and France between 1811 and 1814 and was wounded at Badajoz. He commanded the 8th Brigade at the Battle of Quatre Bras under Sir Thomas Picton. Kempt took over the 5th Division during the Battle of Waterloo when Picton was killed. When this portrait was painted he was lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia. Full-length portrait, wearing orders and decorations, before a stormy landscape.

Events

Quatre Bras, Battle of, 1815 (Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo 1815), Waterloo, Battle of, 1815 (Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo 1815), Badajoz, 3rd Siege of, 1812 (Peninsular War 1808-1814)