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William Armfield Hobday: Commander William Hay, circa 1770-after 1828  wikidata:Q50886753 reasonator:Q50886753
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William Armfield Hobday  (1771–1831)  wikidata:Q8004536
 
William Armfield Hobday
Alternative names
W Hobday; W. A. Hobday; W. Hobday; Hobday; W.A. Hobday
Description English portrait painter and miniaturist
Date of birth/death 1771 Edit this at Wikidata 17 February 1831 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Birmingham London
Work location
London (1817–1831); Bristol (1804–1817); London; Bath Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q8004536
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Commander William Hay, circa 1770-after 1828 Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Commander William Hay, circa 1770-after 1828 Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Commander William Hay, circa 1770-after 1828 Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
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English: Commander William Hay, circa 1770-after 1828

Captain William Hay is first mentioned in Hardy’s East India Register as third mate of the East Indiaman ‘Rockingham’, which sailed from Portsmouth to Calcutta on 27 June 1796. In 1805 he had his first command in the ‘Retreat’, a new ship owned by Robert Wigram, which sailed for Madeira and Bombay in April, returning in May 1806. Between this date and 1828 he made many more voyages to the East. For details of his career see ‘A register of ships employed in the service of the Honourable the United East India Company, from the year 1760 to 1810’ by Charles Hardy.

Hay is shown half-length in the full dress uniform of a commander in the Honourable East India Company’s service, the coat buttoned across. He wears a white waistcoat and neck cloth. The portrait is signed and dated ‘WA Hobday 1815’.

William Hobday (1771–1831) was born in Birmingham, the son of a manufacturer. He was first apprenticed to an engraver, entered the Royal Academy Schools aged 18 in 1790 and became a fashionable miniature and watercolour portraitist. He worked in London and Bath, and moved to Bristol in 1804 where he painted portraits of officers embarking for the Peninsular War. He returned to London in 1817 where he became bankrupt in 1829, after a lifetime of extravagance. His sons Alfred and George were both artists.

Commander William Hay (circa 1770-after 1828)
Date 1815
date QS:P571,+1815-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions Painting: 760 mm x 635 mm
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
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BHC2757
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Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14231
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