# Portrait of Colonel \(later General Sir\) George De Lacy Evans [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STRÖHLING, Eduard]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on copper, 62 x 48 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Colonel \(later General Sir\) George De Lacy Evans c. 1825 Oil on copper, 62 x 48 cm Private collection The subject of the portrait was George de Lacy Evans, whose mother was a De Lacy, a family descended in the female line from Charlemagne and which had held important posts under the Norman Kings in Ireland. He had a long and successful military career in India, Spain, America and Russia. ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()