Sir Henry Sheehy Keating

Sir Henry Sheehy Keating, by Andrew Morton, exhibited 1839 -NPG 1895 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Regency Portraits Catalogue

Sir Henry Sheehy Keating

by Andrew Morton
exhibited 1839
35 in. x 27 in. (889 mm x 686 mm)
NPG 1895

This portraitback to top

A three-quarter-length variant, his right arm on a cannon draped with French colours, still in the family collection, was shown to the NPG in 1957. A miniature by Smart (1807-8) and a drawing for this are also in the family collection.

Physical descriptionback to top

Half-length to right in uniform of lieutenant-general, Ribbon, Star and Badge of KCB; grey hair and whiskers, hazel eyes, pale complexion; Reunion in background.

Provenanceback to top

Family collection and given by his granddaughter, Miss Agnes Keating 1921.

Exhibitionsback to top

RA 1839 (510).


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.