A Mounted Pandour (oil on canvas)

The Hussar, wearing a red turban and holding a scimitar, is mounted on a horse which faces left of the painting, wild sky in background. Label on reverse 'Boswell and Sons, London St, Norwich'. Companion to P/74. Almost certainly picked up by William Windham II on his travels, which may have taken him to eastern Europe. Reminiscent of a German artist such as August Querfurt (1696-1761). The Pandours were ferocious irregulars from Croatia, whose notoriety received a favourable gloss in 1741, when they were formed into a corps by Freiherr von der Trenck, to defend the throne of the Empress Maria Theresa. Felbrigg, Norfolk (Accredited Museum)