ATG letter: Is British officer Lt Henry Durand?
In your Auction Reports on April 5 (Art Market, ATG No 2687) you reported on Reeman Dansie’s sale of a portrait of a young British officer under the headline ‘Missing finger could point to sitter’s identity’. That portrait was the property of my late wife.
I am, however, now convinced that the sitter was Lieutenant Henry Marion Durand [1812-71, later li…