Attributed to Major-General Walter Fane

J.G.A. Baird, Private Letters of the Marquess of Dalhousie, Edinburgh 1910, p. 104a;
R. Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, vol. 1, p.334; vol. II, pl. 658

The colours of this watercolour have remained in good condition. There is some discolouration to the sheet, which may have been caused by the old mount. The is some minor scattered foxing.
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Dalhousie had a fractious relationship with brothers Sir Charles and Sir George Napier. In a private later dated 15 December 1849, Dalhousie describes Sir Charles Napier,  the then Commander-in-Chief's behaviour in camp. 'He is talking everywhere very wildly, and mischievously' he writes 'prognosticating an immediate attack from Gholab Singh, and asserting the certainty of a row - all of which is the very likeliest mode of producing the evil he prophesises' (Baird, op. cit., p. 105). Sir Charles would later resign from his post.