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anonymous: Landing of William III at Torbay, 5 November 1688  wikidata:Q50863518 reasonator:Q50863518
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anonymous Edit this at Wikidata
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English School, 17th Century
Title
Landing of William III at Torbay, 5 November 1688 Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Landing of William III at Torbay, 5 November 1688 Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Landing of William III at Torbay, 5 November 1688 Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lnl,"Prins Willem III van Oranje-Nassau landt te Torbay; 5 november 1688"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre marine art Edit this at Wikidata
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English: Landing of William III at Torbay, 5 November 1688

This oil painting by an unknown English artist shows William III’s landing in Torbay on 5 November 1688 leading 14,000 troops for the invasion of England. On the left of the composition the large Anglo-Dutch fleet seems to be closing in onto the beach and rocky coastline on the right. Boats with men are already coming ashore near Brixham and numerous horses are swimming ashore onto the shelving beach, having been put over the sides of the ships to land this way. The style and colouring of the scene betray a strong influence of early 17th-century Dutch landscape painting.

The son of Charles I's daughter Mary, Prince William (1650-1702) married Mary, daughter of his cousin James, Duke of York, in 1677. James had by then already converted to Catholicism, which produced a series of political crises after he succeeded to the throne as James II on the death of his elder brother, Charles II, in 1685. These eventually led to a cabal of powerful English Protestant figures inviting William to usurp the British throne, based on the right of succession of his wife, Mary.

In 1688 he agreed and on 5 November landed unopposed at Brixham, Torbay. He was welcomed in south-west England – which had suffered the retribution of James's 'Bloody Assize' following the defeat of the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion at Sedgemoor, Somerset, in 1685 – and was only briefly resisted by a few of James's Irish Catholic troops at Reading, west of London.

Landing of William III at Torbay, 5 November 1688
Date 17th century
date QS:P571,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions Frame: 1100 mm x 1968 mm x 65 mm;Painting: 940 mm x 1815 mm
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
Accession number
BHC0326
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Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/11818
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Acquisition Number: 1940-343
id number: BHC0326
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