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Lot 64W

James Leakey
(British, 1773-1865)
Triple portrait of Colonel Sir James Jackson, Major George Lee, and Major General Brice Wakeford Lee

3 December 2014, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,500 inc. premium

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James Leakey (British, 1773-1865)

Triple portrait of Colonel Sir James Jackson, Major George Lee, and Major General Brice Wakeford Lee
signed and inscribed 'Js. Leakey/Exeter' (on the map, lower centre), bears the sitter's names (on three separate labels attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
160 x 132.7cm (63 x 52 1/4in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale, Sotheby's London, 24 November 1999, ex-lot 77, sold for £24,000

Exhibited
London, Colnaghi, The British Face, A View of Portraiture 1625-1850, 1986, No 60.

Sir James Jackson (d.1880) was the third son of General George Jackson of Enniscoe Castle. Co. Mayo, who served in India until 1825, after distinguished service in the Peninsular War and later at Waterloo. He married Mary, daughter of John Bernard Travers, Chief Justice of Madras.
Major George Lee (1793-1853) and Major-General Brice Wakeford Lee (1772-1871) were the sons of Thomas Hicknell Lee of Ebford Barton, Devon. Major George became a cadet in 1810, Captain in 1826 and retired as a Major in 1838, having served in the 8th regiment of the Madras Native Infantry. Major Brice Wakeford Lee was a cadet in 1800, becoming a Colonel in 1824, and a Major General in 1830. The letter in the painting records them as officers in the 39th Regiment of the Madras Army, situated at the camp at Murrielgurrum.

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