here we have a wonderful picture by richard simkin, a great artist of watercolors. here's harry payne, there's richard wymer and there's richard simkin. all three are sought after by military collectors. and this is the most delightful painting because you have all these various facets of one regiment. now often you get single pictures come up in auction. but rarely do you see these multicolored multi-uniform pictures. the regiment was formed in scotland in 1742 and it was called "cunningham's regiment." and then they were dragoons to begin with, they became light dragoons on to hussars right through the napoleonic wars. after the napoleonic wars they adopted this sort of type of shako here which was... against tradition, if you like, because then they went back to the busby again, you see? well, how did you come by it? well, it belonged to my godfather. and due to the fact that, i think, i had spent 24 years in the royal marines, he thought i would appreciate the military history behind the painting. and he passed it on to me. so i actually then found a restorer in