Print Inspector

Ray Westlake looks at an officer of the 2nd Life Guards from 1837

Ray Westlake examines an officer of the 2nd Life Guards from 1837 from an original watercolour, 16.3cm x 18.4cm, by Richard Simkin, dated by the artist as 1837.

Here we have an original watercolour, 16.3cm x 18.4cm, by Richard Simkin, dated by the artist as 1837. Simkin was born in Herne Bay, Kent on 5 November 1850 and died there on 25 June 1926, having produced many hundreds of images for both general publication and as special private commissions. Dating from 1660, the several troops of Life Guards were organised into two separate regiments in 1788. They remained as such until 1922 when the 1st Life Guards and 2nd Life Guards merged to form the Life Guards.

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