King George III and the Prince of Wales Reviewing the 3rd (or The Prince Of Wales's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards and the 10th (Or The Prince Of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, 1797 (c)

King George III and the Prince of Wales Reviewing the 3rd (or The Prince Of Wales's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards and the 10th (Or The Prince Of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, 1797 (c).

Oil on canvas, attributed to George Beechey (1798-1852), 1830 (c), after his father, Sir William Beechey (1753-1839), 1797-1798 (c).

In an imaginative reconstruction of a review held in Hyde Park in London in 1797, the two cavalry regiments engage in mock combat, watched by the royal party. The King rides his favourite horse, ‘Adonis’, while behind him, brandishing a sabre, is the Prince of Wales in his uniform as Colonel of the 10th (or the Prince of Wales’s Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons.