File:Commodore Charles Brown, 1678-9-1753 RMG BHC2578.tiff
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[edit]anonymous: Commodore Charles Brown, 1678/9-1753
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British school, 18th century |
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Commodore Charles Brown, 1678/9-1753  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Commodore Charles Brown, 1678/9-1753 A three-quarter length portrait very slightly to right and facing ahead. No naval uniform existed at this time so Brown wears a brown coat and white full bottomed wig and carrying a drawn hanger in his right hand. A hanger was a hunting sword used at sea before the small sword and cutlass. On a plinth on his left is a telescope and in the background is Boca Chica Bay with the ‘Hampton Court’ engaging the Castle of Chagres on the right. Owing to the wind dropping as they came into action the ‘Hampton Court’ was unsupported for the first half hour. Brown led the assault on the iron Castle here seen in the background. It was to Brown that the Spanish Governor offered his sword in surrender as a mark of his distinction in the attack. In 1738 Brown was the senior naval officer in the West Indies in command of the ‘Hampton Court’ but when Vernon arrived the following year to attack Portobello, he became the second in command and led the squadron of six ships against the fortifications. In 1741 he became Commissioner at Chatham and remained there until his death. The portrait was painted and engraved in mezzotint by G. Faber in 1740. |
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| Date | probably 1740 | |||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Painting: 1270 mm x 1016 mm; Frame: 1450 mm x 1220 mm x 46 mm | |||||||||||
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BHC2578 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14052 | |||||||||||
| 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 | Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH169 Loan File Number: Y2000.023 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC2578 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||
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| current | 12:57, 15 July 2018 |  | 1,448 × 1,819 (7.56 MB) | Captainllama (talk | contribs) | Removed non-free frame |
| 10:34, 7 October 2017 | No thumbnail | 1,928 × 2,436 (13.44 MB) | Fæ (talk | contribs) | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings (1740), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14052 #2479 |
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