Clad in red serge and Stetsons, the dependable Mountie is an icon of all things chivalrous and civilized — and of course law and order.

The Mountie as icon of all things chivalrous and civilized took shape soon after Parliament established the North-West Mounted Police in 1873, and 150 recruits galloped west to battle whiskey traders in the emerging provinces.

Hollywood got into the mythmaking act, and focused its camera lens to the frontier in the north and, in the 1936 movie Rose Marie, put Nelson Eddy in full Mountie uniform in a canoe, paddling and singing his love to a rather pleased Jeanette MacDonald.

A typical movie or novel plot had Mounties saving damsels in distress from villains with foreign-sounding names. 

This painting is really more about the idiom that most women and gay men, can't resist a man in uniform - hence, I Always Get My Man!