File:George Byng (1663-1733), 1st Viscount Torrington RMG BHC2589.tiff

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Godfrey Kneller: George Byng (1663-1733), 1st Viscount Torrington  wikidata:Q50891003 reasonator:Q50891003
Artist
Godfrey Kneller  (1646–1723)  wikidata:Q65317 q:en:Godfrey Kneller
 
Godfrey Kneller
Alternative names
Gottfried Kneller, Birth name: Gottfried Kniller
Description German painter, drawer, engraver and miniaturist
Date of birth/death 8 August 1646 Edit this at Wikidata 19 October 1723 / 27 October 1723 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Lübeck London
Work period between circa 1660 and circa 1723
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1723-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Leiden (circa 1660–1665), Rome, Venice (1672–1675), Nuremberg, Hamburg (1674–1676), London (1676–1723), France (1684–1685)
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artist QS:P170,Q65317
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Title
George Byng (1663-1733), 1st Viscount Torrington Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"George Byng (1663-1733), 1st Viscount Torrington Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"George Byng (1663-1733), 1st Viscount Torrington Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: George Byng (1663-1733), 1st Viscount Torrington

A three-quarter length portrait of George Byng facing to the left. He wears a breastplate, red velvet coat with gold buttons and a brown full bottom wig. His right hand rests on a stone plinth together with his baton, while his left hand holds the hilt of his sheathed sword. In the right background a ship in action highlights the sitter’s naval career.

Byng entered the navy in 1667 as a ‘King’s Letter Boy’ where he saw early service in India. While a lieutenant, his success was assured when he won over officers of the fleet to Prince William of Orange’s cause in 1688, and helped establish his fortune. Byng led the attacking squadron at the capture of Gibraltar and played an important part at the battle of Malaga in 1704. In 1708 he repulsed a French Jacobite fleet and after the capture of Minorca in 1707 was the first to use it as a naval base. Byng crowned his career in 1718 when he won a notable victory over a Spanish fleet off Cape Passaro, when 16 ships were taken and seven burned. The painting was started in 1707 and finished in 1709. It is signed twice ‘G.Kneller f’ and inscribed ‘Sr george Byng, Admiral of the White’ ; altered from ‘Vice Admiral of the Blue’. It was engraved as a mezzotint by J. Fabs senior in 1718.

George Byng (1663-1733), 1st Viscount Torrington
Depicted people George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington Edit this at Wikidata
Date Late 17th century - Early 18th century
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions Painting: 1275 mm x 1030 mm; Frame: 1437 mm x 1205 mm x 80 mm
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
Accession number
BHC2589
Notes Signed.
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Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14063
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Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH61
Loan File Number: Y2000.023
file number: 4G10.031
id number: BHC2589
Collection
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Oil paintings

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