Overall: 41cm (16.2in) x 50cm (19.7in)
Oil on board. An armorial artist’s hand painted polychromed coach panel depicting the arms Alexander Edward Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore (1804-1845) surrounded by the Motto scroll incribed ‘Furth Fortune’ (Go onward with fortune), framed and glazed back to back with an armorial panel displaying the arms, supporters and motto ‘Festina Lente’ (Make haste slowly) of William Conyngham Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket (1828-1897), Dean of Christ Church Cathedral and Archbishop of Dublin in the Church of Ireland.
Alexander, 6th Earl of Dunmore was a Captain in the 9th Lancers. He served as Aide-de-Camp to Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and upon the death of his father in 1836, he succeeded as the 2nd Baron Dunmore in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him a seat in the House of Lords. His other titles, 6th Viscount of Fincastle, 6th Earl of Dunmore, and 6th Lord Murray of Blair, Moulin, and Tillemot, were all in the Peerage of Scotland. He inherited 150,000 acres on Hebridean Isle of Harris and married Lady Catherine Herbert (1814–1886), a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria, at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.