A volunteer of the Loyal Bath Volunteers, 1812 (c)
Watercolour with white heightening on Whatman paper (watermarked 1812), attributed to William Hamlet the Younger (1779-1815), 1812 (c).
Full-length figure in profile, wearing a short tailed coatee and shako,with a camp scene and a castle beyond.
Associated with the Loyal Bath Volunteers, Napoleonic Wars, Home Defence (1803-1815).
Volunteer regiments like the Loyal Bath Volunteers were formed for home defence during the Napoleonic Wars.