Regency Portraits Catalogue
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754-1826), Army officer and Politician, Governor-General of India
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Commander-in-Chief in India 1813-22.
'... if Lord Moira would shave off the black whiskers that grow just under his eyes and almost across his nose, he would be quite handsome' (Lady Bessborough quoted in Complete Peerage, VI, 378).
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.
'... if Lord Moira would shave off the black whiskers that grow just under his eyes and almost across his nose, he would be quite handsome' (Lady Bessborough quoted in Complete Peerage, VI, 378).
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.