File:Captain Sir Walter Stirling, 1718-86 RMG BHC3038.tiff
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[edit]James Northcote: Captain Sir Walter Stirling, 1718-86
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Captain Sir Walter Stirling, 1718-86  |
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Captain Sir Walter Stirling, 1718-86 A half-length portrait in captain's, over three years, full-dress uniform, 1774-87. The sitter wears his own hair, powdered, and a scratch wig and holds a telescope in his left hand. At an advanced age, in 1780, he was Captain of the 'Gibraltar', 80 guns, under Sir Samuel Hood and was present at Rodney's capture of St Eustatius in the West Indies from the Dutch in 1781. He was selected to take home dispatches and was knighted on arrival. In 1782, he was Commodore at the Nore. The background consists of rock with a glimpse of the sea on the left. The portrait is inscribed 'Sir Walter Stirling of Faskine, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore 1781-d.1786'. The artist was a pupil and assistant of Reynolds, and practiced portraiture at Plymouth until 1777, when he went to Italy to study before settling in London in 1781. The artist's signature is unseen. |
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| Date | circa 1780 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Painting: 760 x 643 x 12 mm; Unframed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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BHC3038 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14511 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | Acquisition Number: 1932-16 Caird Catalogue Number (CCAT): CC V1, P60, 303 id number: BHC3038 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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