Lieutenant John James Douglas (later Captain Sir John James Scott-Douglas Bt), 15th (or The King's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars), 1819 (c)
Oil on canvas by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823), unfinished on his death and probably completed by a pupil, 1823 (c).
Douglas (1792-1836) joined the 15th Light Dragoons in 1813 and saw active service in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. In 1819 he purchased a captaincy in the 22nd Light Dragoons but the following year the regiment was disbanded and he went on to half pay. He succeeded his father as 3rd Baronet in 1821 and shortly afterwards assumed the additional surname of Scott, having married Hannah-Charlotte Scott, daughter and heir to Henry Scott.
The portrait was begun by Raeburn, but he probably abandoned the painting when Douglas transferred regiment in 1819.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1959-09-21-1
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study Collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1959-09-21-1