Ernst August von Hugo
(1725-1788), ColonelSitter in 1 portrait
by George Carter
gouache on millboard, 1784
NPG 1752
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Martin Gollasch
23 August 2019, 15:19
A son of the Hanoverian envoy to the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg Ludolf Dietrich Hugo, studied law at Göttingen from spring 1742 (involved in duels and got a Karzer sentence there). Joined the Hanoverian Army in fall 1743.
https://database.factgrid.de/wiki/Item:Q80624
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55902955
http://d-nb.info/gnd/128694807
Portrait by Copley (together with Lt. Col. von Schlepegrell) in Harvard
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colonel_Ernst_August_von_Hugo_and_Lt._Colonel_von_Schlepegrell.jpg