Light Company of the 3rd (Scots) Regiment of Foot Guards

HENRY PIERCE BONE (BRITISH, 1779-1855), AFTER ROBERT MULLER

General Robert Manners (1758-1823), in the uniform of the Light Company of the 3rd (Scots) Regiment of Foot Guards, scarlet coat, gold-bordered blue lapels and collar, gold buttons and wings, part-enamelled regimental shoulder belt plate decorated with the Order of the Thistle, fur-crested round hat with bearskin crest and green plume; landscape and cloudy sky background
signed dated and fully inscribed on the counter-enamel 'The late Gen.^l Manners. In the Uniform of the Light Infantry Battalion of Guards, which under his command, cover'd the retreat of the British troops out of Holland in the Western Campaign 1794 to Ap.^l 1795. London April 1832. Painted by Henry Pierce Bone after the original by Muller painted by the command of George 3.^rd and sent by His Majesty to Lady Rob.^t Manners Feb.^y 27. 1796.'