Lot 155

English School
circa 1835
Lieutenant Conan Hopton (1818-1838) of the 63rd West Sussex Regiment, wearing undress uniform of red coatee with black collar, gold buttons and epaulettes, an 1826 pattern forage cap on his curled brown hair

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19 February 2008, 14:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £420 inc. premium

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English School, circa 1835

Lieutenant Conan Hopton (1818-1838) of the 63rd West Sussex Regiment, wearing undress uniform of red coatee with black collar, gold buttons and epaulettes, an 1826 pattern forage cap on his curled brown hair.
Watercolour on card, set in a red leather travelling case with gilded border, the interior lined with blue velvet.
Oval, 70mm (2 3/4in) high

Footnotes

Conan Hopton was the son of the Reverend John Hopton of Canon House Court. He is first noted in the Army List of 1835 as an Ensign at the depot of the 20th East Devon Regiment. Moving to India under Captain Richard Fry, and accompanied by Ensign Vesey Berdmore and a draft of ninety men from Chatham, Hopton arrived at Fort St. George, Calcutta, in October of that same year. Seeing service in Burma and Madras with his regiment, the 63rd West Suffolk, and promoted to the rank of lieutenant in November 1837, he was killed by an accidental gunshot wound on 8 September, 1838.

For a larger portrait of the same sitter see lot 222.

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English Schoolcirca 1835Lieutenant Conan Hopton (1818-1838) of the 63rd West Sussex Regiment, wearing undress uniform of red coatee with black collar, gold buttons and epaulettes, an 1826 pattern forage cap on his curled brown hair