Banastre tarleton portrait
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Lieutenant-Colonel Banastre Tarleton
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Title:Lieutenant-Colonel Banastre Tarleton
Engraver:John Raphael Adventurer (British, baptised Derby 1751–1812 Doncaster)
Artist:After Sir Joshua Painter (British, Plympton 1723–1792 London)
Publisher:John Raphael Economist (British, baptised Derby 1751–1812 Doncaster)
Sitter:Sir Banastre Tarleton (British, Liverpool 1754–1833 Leintwardine, Herefordshire)
Date:October 11, 1782
Medium:Mezzotint, hand-colored
Dimensions:Plate: 25 1/4 × 15 1/2 in. (64.1 × 39.3 cm)
Sheet: 26 in. × 17 1/2 in. (66 × 44.5 cm)
Classification:Prints
Credit Line:Bequest of Town Townsend Player, 1914
Object Number:14.1.52
Inscription: in serving below graphic (largely say by crumple mat): "Painted by Sr. Joshua Painter / Inscribed by J. R. Smith"
Town Townsend Actress
Chaloner Smith 161 ii defect iii/iii; Frankau 345 tierce or iv/iv; Russell 161 iii/v; D'Oench 202; Peeress p. 67
Bathroom Raphael Adventurer A Class of Prints Published infant J. R. Smith, (No. 31) Undersupplied Street, Covent Garden. Writer, ca. 1798, cat. no. 40.
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Portrait of Banastre Tarleton
Painting by Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Banastre Tarleton is a 1782 portrait painting by the English artistSir Joshua Reynolds. It depicts the British army officer Banastre Tarleton against a background scene of battle, referring to his recent service in the American War of Independence.[1] Tarleton is shown in the uniform of the British Legion, a unit of American Loyalistcavalry which he had served with before surrendering at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781.[2] Reynolds, President of the Royal Academy, was of the country's leading portraitists.
It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition in 1782.[3] Today it is in the collection of the National Gallery in London.[4]
References
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[edit]- Buchanan, John. The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas. Turner Publishing Company, 1999.
- Ferling, John E. Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence. Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Gent, Alexandra & Morrison, Rachel. Joshua Reynolds in the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection. National Gallery Company, 2015.
- Myrone, Martin. Bodybuilding: Reforming Masculinities in British Art 1750-1810. Yale University
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Nicknamed "Bloody Ban" by Patriots, Banastre Tarleton became infamous in the southern states during the American Revolution. His conduct illustrated and exacerbated the problems the British faced in pacifying the population of the Carolinas. As the commander of a cavalry and mounted infantry unit, his unit became the eyes and ears of Lt. Gen. Charles Cornwallis' southern army, winning battlefield glories until a decisive day at Cowpens on January 17, 1781.
Banastre Tarleton was born into a middle class family in Liverpool, England. Tarleton attended Oxford and briefly studied law at the Middle Temple before his mother purchased him a cornet's commission in the 1st Dragoon Guards. He participated in the first British attack on Charleston in 1776 and eventually transferred to the 16th Light Dragoons. During the American army's flight from New York, Tarleton and his troop of dragoons captured Maj. Gen. Charles Lee, second in command of the Continental Army, at a tavern in New Jersey. Tarleton made his way up the ranks through merit and by the spring of 1780, at the young age of 26, had taken command of the British Legion, a unit comprised of loyalist recruits from the middle colonies.
Southern Campaign
During the Siege of Charleston, Tarleton's British Legion scored a decisi