File:Rear-Admiral Richard Tyrrell, 1716-7-66 RMG BHC3064.tiff
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[edit]Thomas Hudson: Rear-Admiral Richard Tyrrell, 1716/7-66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q1502003 |
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre | portrait | |||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: Rear-Admiral Richard Tyrrell, 1716/7-66 A three-quarter-length portrait to right in flag officer's full-dress uniform, 1748-67, and a tie wig. His right hand is on his hip and his left holds a telescope with his hat visible under his left arm. In 1748 he frustrated a French attempt to take over Tobago, using only his frigate and forceful personality. In 1758, while in command of the 'Buckingham', 64 guns, he intercepted a French convoy protected by the 'Florissant', 74 guns, and two frigates. The 'Buckingham', is depicted in the right background of the portrait, flying a commodore's pendant and a white ensign. When the 'Buckingham' frightened off the two frigates a spirited action between the French and British ship ensued. The 'Buckingham' lost her steering at the moment of victory and this enabled the French ship to escape. Tyrrel was wounded several times and lost three fingers of his right hand, a mutilation clearly visible in the portrait. The action was particularly creditable because the Frenchman carried over 200 men more than the 'Buckingham'. In the following year Tyrrel assisted Commodore Moore to reduce Guadaloupe and brought home the dispatches. After the peace he went out again as Commander-in-Chief at Antigua and died at sea while returning home. There are signs that the portrait was originally of Tyrrel as a captain and it was probably altered at a later date, before he went to the West Indies for the last time. The painter, Hudson, was both pupil and son-in-law of another notable portraitist, the elder Jonathan Richardson, and was in turn the early master in London of Joshua Reynolds. Regarded as a safe man for a dignified and flattering likeness, he was the leading society portraitist of his time, with a huge practice. Although he painted his sitters' faces, his use of assistants to paint much of the rest of his portraits was well known although far from unusual. |
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Date | 1759 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | Painting: 1270 mm x 1015 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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BHC3064 |
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Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14537 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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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 InfoField | Acquisition Number: 1933-09 id number: BHC3064 |
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Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
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