Military portrait painting

Lord Louis Mountbatten

Emperor Wilhelm II, 1909-11. Though recently repaired, the portrait still shows the marks of five slashes apparently inflicted by Russian soldiers at the end of World War II. The first grandchild of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, "Willy" suffered a birth injury that permanently damaged his left arm; many believe his disability, and others' reaction to it, severely affected his psychology. He was further warped by his early indoctrination into the all-pervasive Prussian military milieu…

Song of the Dark Ages | Josie Holford: Rattlebag and Rhubarb. Edmund Antrobus (1887-1914), in the Uniform of a Grenadier Guard by Harold Speed

Portrait of Unknown Soldier by John Collier (ARC)

Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomey - Born the son of Hugh de Fellenberg Montgomery, a landowner and Ulster Unionist politician. Archibald was Chief of the Imperial General Staff. He served in the Second Boer War and in World War I. He married Diana Langton Massingberd in 1896, and in October 1926, changed his name by Royal Licence in order to take her surname hyphenated to his own, when she inherited family estates.

Commission a portrait from portrait painter Heather Marcus

The Most Honourable Ulick de Burgh Browne, 7th Marquess of Sligo (1898-1941), wearing the service dress of the Royal Scots Greys.

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