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Orme was aide-de-camp to General Edward Braddock, commander-in-chief of the British forces in America, and was friends with the young George Washington. On 9 July 1755, General Braddock and his forces were ambushed and defeated by French and Native American riflemen near Fort Du Quesne on the Ohio River. In Reynolds’s portrait, Orme seems about to leap on his horse and ride off with reports of the battle. The dispatch he holds is illegible but may carry news of Braddock’s death. The poses of Orme and his horse are derived from a fresco by Jacopo Ligozzi in the church of Ognissanti in Florence, which Reynolds drew in 1752 in his Italian sketchbook.
Title
Captain Robert Orme
Date
1756
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 239 x W 147 cm
Accession number
NG681
Acquisition method
Bought, 1862
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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