Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
(1773-1865), Field MarshalRegency Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 9 portraits
Wellington tended to be suspicious, not without reason, of the performance of his cavalry units and their commanders. Lord Combermere, however, proved a success in Spain, and was in overall command of the division that charged so brilliantly at Salamanca in 1812. 'By God, Cotton,' said Wellington', I never saw anything so beautiful in my life; the day is yours.' Wellington, however, had a firm view of Combermere's limitations; when asked why he had recommended his appointment to command a campaign in Burma, when he considered him a fool, Wellington barked: 'So he is a fool, and a damned fool, but he can take Rangoon!'
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
by Thomas Heaphy
watercolour, 1817
NPG 4177
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
by Mary Martha Pearson (née Dutton)
oil on canvas, 1825
NPG 351
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
probably by Maull & Polyblank
albumen print, arched top, mid-late 1850s
NPG Ax7305
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
by Maull & Polyblank
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1860s
NPG x38978
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
published by Alfred William Bennett
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x75839
by, published by and after Anker Smith, by Thomas Heaphy, published by Rudolph Ackermann
line and stipple engraving, published 8 August 1822
NPG D42614
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
by Samuel William Reynolds Jr, after John Hayter
mezzotint, published 25 June 1841
NPG D34052
after Thomas Heaphy
tracing, before 1960
NPG D42615
Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere
by Unknown photographer
woodburytype, circa 1863
NPG x6334
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Martin Hopkinson
11 April 2019, 10:30
NPG 351 Martha Pearson's portrait of Viscount Combermere was also exhibited at the Liverpool Academy in 1829 as no 168