File:Vice-Admiral Sir John Leake (1656-1720) RMG BHC2835.tiff
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[edit]Godfrey Kneller: Vice-Admiral Sir John Leake (1656-1720) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q65317 |
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Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre | portrait | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: Vice-Admiral Sir John Leake (1656-1720) A three-quarter length standing portrait of Leake. He wears a blue velvet coat decorated with gold embroidered button holes and he has a full bottomed brown wig. His left hand rests on his hip and his right hand holds his baton as he gestures to the right. Leake played the principal part at the relief of Londonderry in 1689, while in the ‘Dartmouth’, he broke the boom and destroyed the French batteries. He took part in the capture of Gibraltar in 1704, and in the background of the portrait Kneller has included the burning French ships that he attacked there. From 1703-05 he remained in the Mediterranean in command of a squadron which successfully defeated the Franco-Spanish attempts to retake Gibraltar. During his second tour in the Mediterranean he both relieved Barcelona and captured Cartagena, Alicante, Ivisa and Majorca in 1706. As Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean in 1708, he also captured Sardinia and Minorca which guaranteed English supremacy in these waters. In 1710 Leake became First Lord of the Admiralty, a post which he held until the death of Queen Anne. The date of this portrait is unclear, either in 1705 when he returned from the Mediterranean the first time or 1712 after his return from the second tour there. The painting is inscribed ‘By Sr Godfrey Knller. Sir John Leake, Vice Admrl of the Blew’. It was presented to Greenwich Hospital Collection by King George IV in 1824 and was engraved by Faber ‘Sir G. Kneller Bart pinx 1712’. |
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Depicted people | John Leake | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
December 1705 date QS:P571,+1705-12-00T00:00:00Z/10 |
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Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | Painting: 1270 mm x 1016 mm; Frame: 1489 x 1223 x 100 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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Accession number |
BHC2835 |
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Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14308 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH248 Loan File Number: Y2000.023 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC2835 |
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Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
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