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Thomas Hickey (Dublin 1741-1824 India)
Lot 141

Thomas Hickey (Dublin 1741-1824 India)

Portrait of Colonel Thomas Fitzgerald (1737-?), three-quarter-length, in uniform, his right hand resting on the hilt of his sword, a landscape beyond

Closed29 April 2014

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Thomas Hickey (Dublin 1741-1824 India)
Portrait of Colonel Thomas Fitzgerald (1737-?), three-quarter-length, in uniform, his right hand resting on the hilt of his sword, a landscape beyond
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm.)

By descent from the sitter, when sold Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1984, lot 53.

Specialist note

Colonel Fitzgerald of Ballinaparka, County Waterford and Newcastle, County Tipperary, was born in 1737. He sailed as ensign in the Royal George in 1759, aged 21, before being promoted Lieutenant of the Madras Infantry in 1759, then Captain in 1763 and Major in 1766. He was present at the siege of Madura in 1764 and was wounded; he retired in 1770.