Regency Portraits Catalogue

Sir David Dundas (1735-1820), General

General; Commander-in-Chief 1809-11; author of Principles of Military Movements, 1788; KB 1804.

'Dundas was a tall spare man, crabbed and austere, dry in his looks and demeanour' (H. M. Stephens in Dictionary of National Biography).

This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.