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J. Pastorini circa 1808-15. An officer of an auxiliary regiment.Set in a locket frame with blue glass and hair panel reverse.
Dimensions: Oval height 3 inches.
Price Guide: C
Item Reference: 28
Additional Information: The sitter in this portrait miniature is dressed in the uniform of a subaltern – ensign or lieutenant – or captain of a battalion company of a regiment of auxiliary infantry, probably of Volunteers or Local Militia, during the period c.1808-15. During the period of the wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815, many regiments of Volunteers were raised in Britain against the threat of invasion and, in 1808, many of them became subsumed into regiments of Local Militia. These regiments, Volunteers and Local Militia, were drawn from small parochial areas, often small towns or even groups of villages, and the designs of their badges reflected this local patriotism. Thus, the red rose on the sitter’s shoulder-belt plate may well signify that his regiment had close associations with the English county of Lancashire, whose symbol has long been a red rose. |
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