Major-General (later General) Sir Hopetoun Stratford Scott KCB, Colonel of the 2nd Madras European Regiment, 1840 (c)

Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, 'S Catterson Smith RHA 1904', by Stephen Catterson Smith, the Younger (1849-1912) after Stephen Catterson Smith, the Elder (1806-1872), 1904.

Scott (1777-1860) was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1777. He was commissioned as an ensign in the Madras Army of the East India Company in 1793. He wears the uniform of a general officer.