This portrait of an unnamed officer of the 1st Royal Regiment is thought to date from the mid 1790s. He wears the full dress coat which has embroidered buttonholes. The collar is indistinct but appears to be the stand-up type, with one button on each side. He has a black stock around his neck with a small amount of shirt collar showing above it. Shirt ruffle fills the space where the lapels open. Unfortunately the lower part of his chest cannot be seen because the fastening of the coat differs from the way we would expect. Instead of the lapels folded back neatly in a semi-permanent way, they are pulled over to fasten to one button, revealing the embroidered lapels lower down. A few years later c1799 the coat would be buttoned to the waist so that only the top of the lapels was exposed. The gold epaulette at this stage was more defined so that the fringe was more regular.
