Attributed to Mather Brown (Boston 1761-1831 London)


Portrait of Lieutenant-General Richard England, half-length, in military uniform oil on canvas91.2 x 71cm (35 7/8 x 27 15/16in).
|Lieutenant-General Richard James England (1745-1812) spent much of his military career in North America. He fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) and at the Battles of Saratoga during the American Revolutionary War where he was taken prisoner. He married Anne O'Brien by whom he had three children and died in London in 1812.