Curatorial description (accessed: 16 March 2017)
This image of a young drummer is likely from the Crimean Heroes series commissioned by Queen Victoria at the conclusion of the Crimean War. While some portraits in the series show soldiers injured in battle, Allen (likely his family name, inscribed on the mount) stands proud and tall in his full regalia, seemingly innocent of the horrors of the Crimean War battles best recalled by Tennyson's poem The Charge of the Light Brigade.
