File:The Frigate 'Triton' RMG BHC3675.tiff
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[edit]Nicholas Pocock: The Frigate 'Triton'
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The Frigate 'Triton'  |
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: The Frigate 'Triton' This ship's portrait was painted for Vice-Admiral James Gambier, Lord Gambier. He was a Lord of the Admiralty at the time it was painted in 1797 and was the designer of the fifth-rate frigate,32-gun 'Triton', built as an experiment at Deptford in 1796 with timbers of fir rather than oak. The ship's portrait is small and detailed, showing the 'Triton' in three positions sailing in a fresh breeze. The principal view shows her hove-to, with the foretopsail and foretopgallant backed, with her seamen engaging in hoisting the foresails and communicating with the two-masted lugger in the right foreground, which may have just picked up a pilot from the ship before heading home. 'Triton' was later involved with three other British frigates in the capture of two Spanish treasure ships in the Bay of Biscay, on 16 October 1799, an action which made a fortune for all four captains. Pocock placed considerable importance on accuracy, referring to his annotated drawings and sketch plans in the production of his oil paintings. He was born and brought up in Bristol, went to sea at the age of 17 and rose to command several merchant ships. Although he only took up painting as a profession in his early forties, he became extremely successful, receiving commissions from naval commanders anxious to have accurate portrayals of actions and ships. By the age of 80, Pocock had recorded nearly forty years of maritime history, demonstrating a meticulous understanding of shipping and rigging with close attention to detail. The work is unusual since the artist rarely produced ship portraits in oil. It is signed and dated 'N Pocock 1797'. |
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| Date | 1797 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Painting: 400 mm x 560 mm; Frame: 510 mm x 675 mm x 70 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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BHC3675 |
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| Notes | Signed and dated 1797. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/15148 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | File number: 4G10.031 Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH147 Loan File Number: Y2000.023 id number: BHC3675 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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