Captain John Stanley was a British Army officer who served in the American War of Independence.
Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1776
Battle of Saratoga (Freeman’s Farm), 19 September 1777 , contemporary German engraving by Johann Martin Will, published in Augsburg (ca. 1777). Captain John Stanley, aide-de-camp to General Burgoyne and officer in the 20th Regiment of Foot, was severely wounded and taken prisoner during this battle.
'XX' button on Captain John Stanley
'XX' button for enlisted soldiers of the 20th Regiment of Foot c1776
The Surrender of General Burgoyne is an oil painting by the American artist John Trumbull. The painting was completed in 1821 and hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C.
John Stanley (British Army officer)
…painting as being in excellent condition.Its subsequent ownership and present location are not publicly recorded. Stanley is absent from John Trumbull's Surrender of General Burgoyne painting (c. 1821–1822), as Trumbull often omitted figures he had not personally sketched or for whom he lacked reliable likenesses during his preparatory…
Surrender of General Burgoyne
Trumbull's 1791 sketch of Surrender of General Burgoyne that he completed before beginning the portrait, which was finished 30 years later, in 1821
A Bureau of Engraving and Printing vignette used on the reverse of the $500 National Bank Note
Key to the figures in the painting