NAM.1962-06-5-1

Lieutenant (later Captain) Charles Swanston (1789-1850), in the uniform of the Poona Irregular Horse, 1819 (c). Oil on canvas by a Company artist, possibly a copy of another work, 1819 (c). Full-length portrait of Swanston wearing long, brown-drab kurta and wide red lungi, holding the bridle of his unsettled horse in his right hand, pistol at waist, bamboo lance in his left hand.