FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
(1788-1855), Commander in the CrimeaRegency Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 15 portraits
Commander of British forces in the Crimean War; entered army aged sixteen and lost right arm at Waterloo; appointed to command British troops against Russia in the Crimea in 1854. He secured victory at the Alma but his lack of experience as a commander in the field was held to blame for later calamities; died of cholera, 28 June 1855, 'the victim of England's unreadiness for war'.
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
by Thomas Heaphy
watercolour and pencil, 1813-1815
NPG 1914(11)
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
by William Salter
oil on canvas, 1838-1840
NPG 3743
The Council of War on the day of the taking of the Mamelon Quarries, 7 June 1855
by Roger Fenton
salt print, 6 June 1855
NPG P49
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
by Roger Fenton
salt print, 1855
NPG P19
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
by Roger Fenton
salt print on the publisher's printed mount, 1855
NPG Ax24901
by, published by and after Anker Smith, by Thomas Heaphy, published by Rudolph Ackermann
line and stipple engraving, published 8 August 1822
NPG D42614
The Chancellor of the University of Oxford Attended by Doctors of Civil Law
by John ('HB') Doyle, printed by Ducôte & Stephens, published by Thomas McLean
lithograph, published 1 December 1834
NPG D41285
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
by William Oakley Burgess, published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co, after Andrew Morton
mezzotint, published 31 August 1841
NPG D41826
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
by William Oakley Burgess, published by Joseph Sandell Welch, after Andrew Morton
mezzotint, published 1 July 1844
NPG D39175
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
by William Oakley Burgess, printed by Dixon & Ross, published by Ackermann & Co, after Andrew Morton
mezzotint, circa 1844
NPG D39176
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
by W. Joseph Edwards, published by Virtue & Co
stipple engraving, circa 1850-1867
NPG D15985
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
by Henry Cousins, after Sir Francis Grant
mezzotint, (1853)
NPG D39178
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
by James John Chant, after Sir Francis Grant
mezzotint, (circa 1858)
NPG D39177
The late Field Marshals of England; Wellington & Lord Raglan, crossing the Pyrenees, 1813
by William Greatbach, by Robert Wallis, after Thomas Jones Barker
line engraving, published 1858 (originally published 1856)
NPG D13774
after Thomas Heaphy
tracing, before 1960
NPG D42615
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