Sir Duncan Campbell’s trim “coatee” uniform attests to his rank as captain in the 3rd Scots Fusilier Guards, a Scottish regiment in the British army. At the time of this portrait, the sitter had recently seen action in the Peninsular War (1807-1814), which was fought in Spain and Portugal between the French Empire, under Napoleon, and allied forces led by the United Kingdom. Campbell’s involvement in the British victory may account for his proud self-possession in this likeness, whose deployment of light and shadow draws lessons from the seventeenth-century portraits of Rembrandt.
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