Major Reginald Augustus Wymer (1849-1935)
15th Light Dragoons 1759,
watercolour, signed lower right and titled lower left,
170mm x 122mm unmounted & unframed

Reginald Augustus Wymer was a military painter. He was commissioned in the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot in 1867; transferred to the 91st Highlanders in 1870; made a Captain in the 2nd (Militia) Battalion of the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders, and retired as a Major in 1905. His works were collected by Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) and Queen Mary, who visited Fortnum and Masons on 28 May 1932 to see ‘charming pictures by Major Wymer’