File:Admiral Thomas Mathews, 1676-1751 RMG BHC2855.tiff
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[edit]Claude Arnulphy: Admiral Thomas Mathews, 1676-1751 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre | portrait | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: Admiral Thomas Mathews, 1676-1751 A three-quarter-length portrait, almost full-face, in a blue coat with mariner's cuffs and a red waistcoat, both frogged with gold. He wears a short, white full-bottomed wig and holds a telescope in his right hand, his left hand resting on a cannon. The portrait was painted when the sitter was Vice-Admiral of the Red and Commander-in-Chief of the British Mediterranean fleet, 1742-44. The background shows the fleet at anchor in Hyères Bay, Toulon, with Lestock's flagship 'Neptune', 90 guns, and units of his squadron on the right; the stern of Mathews's flagship 'Namur', 90 guns, on the extreme left of the picture. This portrait was painted just before his unfortunate encounter with the Franco-Spanish fleet off Toulon in which only one enemy ship was taken. Mathews was hindered by the disobedience of his second-in-command, Lestock. At the subsequent court martial, Mathews was held to be chiefly responsible for the failure of the action, and was cashiered. The French-born artist worked exclusively as a portrait painter and spent most of his working life in Provence. This is one of a group of portraits he painted of English naval officers while Mathews' fleet was blockading Toulon. It was engraved by John Faber in 1744, see PAF3384. |
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Date |
1743 date QS:P571,+1743-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | Painting: 1270 mm x 1015 mm; Frame: 1468 mm x 1220 mm x 90 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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Accession number |
BHC2855 |
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Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14328 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Identifier InfoField | Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH54 Loan File Number: Y2000.023 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC2855 |
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Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
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