A fine portrait miniature of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Fox Canning, 3rd Foot Guards, A.D.C. to the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo where he was killed in action
Watercolour painting, probably on ivory, the subject in uniform wearing the Peninsula Gold Cross, approx. 110x86mm, reputed to be by the Scottish miniaturist Andrew Robertson (1777-1845), circa 1815, in ebonised frame, good condition £2,000-£3,000

Charles Fox Canning was born in 1782, 3rd son of Stratford Canning and brother of the subsequently celebrated diplomatist Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe. He was commissioned Lieutenant & Captain in the 3rd Foot Guards, 25 December 1807, becoming Captain & Lieutenant-Colonel on 31 March 1814. He served in the Peninsula as A.D.C. to Lord Wellington from May 1809 to April 1814, including actions of Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Burgos, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes and Toulouse, and received a Gold Cross for the last four actions. The Duke took him again on his personal staff just before Waterloo where he was killed on the 18th June after delivering a message from the Duke to a far part of the field.

Sold with an autograph letter signed C. F. Canning from Portugal to Henry Canning Esq., Berkeley Square, dated Pinhel, 4 December 1811; together with a manuscript memorial notice in the hand of his mother, Mrs Stratford Canning, and a related news cutting from April 1904.