File:Captain Sir George Montagu, 1750-1829 RMG BHC2867.tiff
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Summary
anonymous: Captain Sir George Montagu, 1750-1829
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| Artist | _(attributed_to)_-_Captain_Sir_George_Montagu_(1750%E2%80%931829)_-_BHC2867_-_Royal_Museums_Greenwich.jpg) | |||||||||||
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unidentified artist |
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| Title |
Captain Sir George Montagu, 1750-1829  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||
| Genre |
portrait |
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| Description |
English: Captain Sir George Montagu, 1750-1829 A full-length portrait wearing a captain's undress uniform (over three years, 1774-87) of frock coat and breeches. Facing left, Montagu stands in front of a tree to his left with the sea beyond, to his right. The ship is stern view is probably the firgate 'Pearl', 32 guns, of which he was in command when he captured the Spanish frigate 'Santa Monica', 28 guns, in 1779 and in the following year the large French privateer, 'Espèrance', 32 guns. As a rear-admiral, he commanded the secondary squadron watching Rochefort in the campaign of the First of June, 1794, and was later commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, dying as Admiral of the Red. This fine portrait was bequeathed to the Museum in 1958 from the estate of James Drogo Montagu, a descendant of the sitter, but the artist -certainly British- has not yet been firmly identified though both Lemuel Abbott and Thomas Beach have been suggested. Its rather compressed format is because the canvas has been cut down top and bottom. |
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| Date | circa 1782 | |||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Painting: 1905 mm x 1473 mm | |||||||||||
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| Accession number |
BHC2867 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14340 | |||||||||||
| 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: OP1958-27 Previous Acquistion Number: 1953-11/4 id number: BHC2867 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||
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