Louis Philippe Joseph, Duke of Chartres, later Duke of Orléans (1747-93), Joshua Reynolds, 1785
This portrait was severely damaged in the carlton house fire of 8 june 1824; various attempts to restore it have achieved little. Its original appearance can be gauged from a small early nineteenth-century copy (om 1044, 407607). The sitter appears standing in hussar's uniform with the ribbon of the saint-esprit, holding his plumed hat in his left hand; behind him is a groom holding a charger and in the distance is a castle on a hill. Object Type: painting. Date: 1785. Dimensions: height: 238.8 cm (94 in); width: 147.8 cm (58.1 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Orléans in 1785 by Joshua Reynolds (British Royal Collection)