File:Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth (1748-1817) RMG BHC2664.tiff
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[edit]William Beechey: Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth (1748-1817)
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Sir William Beechey |
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Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth (1748-1817)  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth (1748-1817) A three-quarter length portrait of Thomas Duckworth. He wears a vice-admiral’s full dress uniform, with the star and ribbon of the KB as well as the medals for the First of June, 1794 and San Domingo, 1806. His sword rests in the crook of his left arm and he points to the left with his right hand. In 1759 at the early age of eleven he was present at Admiral Boscawen’s destruction of the French squadron at Lagos, and later in the year was at the battle of Quiberon Bay. He was a lieutenant in Admiral Byron’s flagship during his action off Grenada in 1779 and was promoted commander immediately afterwards. As captain of the ‘Orion’ at Lord Howe’s victory on the First of June he received the gold medal which is very prominent in the portrait. At San Domingo he destroyed or captured a French squadron of five ships of the line, including the ‘Imperial’ 120-guns, one of the most powerful warships of the period. In the following year he took a squadron to Constantinople but failed to reach agreement with the Ottoman rulers. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief in Newfoundland from 1810-13. There are several versions of the portrait and this has generally been thought to be a signed replica of about 1809-10. It appeared as a print between 1806 and in 1837 as a stipple engraving for Captain Edwards Brenton’s ‘Naval History of Great Britain, 1783-1836’. |
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Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet |
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| Date | circa 1809-10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Frame: 1644 mm x 1356 mm x 117 mm;Painting: 1270 mm x 1016 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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BHC2664 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14138 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH149 Loan File Number: Y2000.023 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC2664 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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