This section of the picture of The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment by Louise Pragnell, in full here, (click on Household Cavalry), was unveiled by The Princess Royal to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the Household Cavalry. The unveiling ceremony of the oil painting - which measures 3 metres high by 1 metre long - took place in the Officers Mess at Hyde Park Barracks in London. The portrait features 25 officers of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment dressed in a selection of military uniforms.
The full picture is slightly reminiscent of John Singer Sargent's portrait of General Officers of the Great War, 1922 at the National Portrait Gallery in London, although the obvious difference is the size - 3 metres high by 5.3 meters wide, and of course the much less formal pose of the new picture.
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