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Lieutenant Vincent Eyre, DCO, Bengal Artillery, Army Staff, 1842 (colour litho)
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Lieutenant Vincent Eyre, DCO, Bengal Artillery, Army Staff, 1842.
Coloured lithograph after Lieutenant Vincent Eyre, Bengal Artillery, 1842 (c).
Vincent Eyre (1811-1881) joined the Bengal Artillery in 1828 after attending the East India Companys Military Academy at Addiscombe. He arrived in India in 1829 and after a decade of regimental duty was serving as a Commissary of Ordnance when he took part in the 1839 invasion of Afghanistan. Eyre and his family were captured by Akbar Khans forces in January 1842 and spent nearly nine months in captivity, during which time Eyre kept a diary of his experiences and made portraits of many of his fellow prisoners. He was rescued in September 1842 when Major-General Sir George Pollocks Army of Retribution arrived in Kabul.
The following year Eyre was appointed to command the artillery of the newly-raised Gwalior contingent, which rebelled during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. He went on to take part in the Relief of Lucknow and was made a Lieutenant-Colonel for his services during the campaign. He eventually retired a lieutenant-general in 1863.
From Portraits of the Kabul Prisoners, a set of pre-publication coloured lithographs later published by John Murray in 1843.
The artists original drawings were made during his captivity in Afghanistan after the Retreat from Kabul during the 1st Afghan War (1838-1842).