A mounted officer of the 17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers), 1825 (c).

Oil and gouache on paper stuck onto cardboard, signed lower left ‘J. Mathews’, by Major John Edward Chapman Mathews (1843-1927), 1900 (c).
In uniform, in profile to left, with another member of the regiment in the distance to the left and another to the right.
Mathews was a captain in the Middlesex Yeomanry from 1880 and a captain in the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars from 1894, an Hon major from 1895 and he is last mentioned in the Army List of Sept-Oct 1901.