Portrait Miniature of an Officer of the 8th Light Dragoons, oils on ivory, 73mm x 60mm, with gilt oval mount in red leather hinged case, brass label to lid inscribed ‘Major William Martin, 8th Regt. Light Dragoons B.1776 D.1825’, good condition £400-500

William Martin was appointed Lieutenant in the 8th Light Dragoons on 4 November 1795; Captain, 1 November 1803; Major, 18 August 1816. He appears to have left the army in October 1818 and died in 1825.