File:Portrait of an East India Company Captain, circa 1800 RMG BHC3127.tiff
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[edit]Stephen Hewson: Portrait of an East India Company Captain, circa 1800
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Stephen Hewson |
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Portrait of an East India Company Captain, circa 1800  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Portrait of an East India Company Captain, circa 1800 The unidentified officer wears captain’s full dress uniform of the East India Company, 1787–1856. He holds his hat in his left hand and with his right gestures towards his ship, an East Indiaman on the right. The artist’s signature has until recently been read as “L. Hensen” or “Henson”, but is actually that of Stephen Hewson, active 1775–1812. Hewson exhibited at the Free Society, the Society of Artists and the Royal Academy, where he exhibited a considerable number of portraits, most of unidentified sitters.. He worked in Cheltenham in1786 and is recorded as visiting York in 1788, 1790 and 1791. He advertised as a portrait and miniature painter and described himself as ‘well known in York’. He is probably the Stephen Hewson who married Jane Hodgeson at St Marylebone, 31 January 1771. |
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| Date | circa 1800 | |||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Frame: 917 mm x 780 mm x 90 mm;Painting: 760 mm x 635 mm | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
BHC3127 |
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| Notes | Signed. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14600 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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: 1937-1953 id number: BHC3127 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||
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