Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet, a French portrait painter, was born in Paris in 1791. He also executed a great number of sketches of various national and military costumes, some of which are at Windsor. He died at Versailles in 1834.
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In 1828 King William IV of Great Britain commissioned a set of 100 small paintings in "oil on card", measuring 34.9 x 25.5 x 0.2 cm, illustrating the various uniforms of the British military. Most of these remain in the Royal Collection. Framed groups of them can be seen in a photograph of the Equerry’s Room in Windsor Castle of around 1900. A range of ranks are shown, and the models all named; whether they were all as tall and slim as he shows them might be doubted.[1]
He also produced a number of portraits of young boys in military uniform, including one of the Duke of Bordeaux in the Bordeaux Museum.
Gallery
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The young Duke of Bordeaux in a military uniform, 1828
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Portrait of Achille Deban de Laborde, 1817, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
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Lucretia Johanna van Winter, 1825
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Colour-Sergeant Alexander McDonald, Scots Fusilier Guards, Royal Collection
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Private John Kernan (b. 1806), 7th Dragoon Guards
References
editMedia related to Paintings by Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet at Wikimedia Commons
Attribution
edit- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Dubois Drahonet, Alexandre Jean". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.