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Francis Cotes: Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, 1705-1781, 1st Baron Hawke  wikidata:Q50870183 reasonator:Q50870183
Artist
Francis Cotes  (1726–1770)  wikidata:Q632772
 
Francis Cotes
Description English portrait painter
Date of birth/death 20 May 1726 Edit this at Wikidata 16 July 1770 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q632772
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Title
Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, 1705-1781, 1st Baron Hawke Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, 1705-1781, 1st Baron Hawke Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, 1705-1781, 1st Baron Hawke Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, 1705-1781, 1st Baron Hawke

A three-quarter-length portrait showing the sitter slightly to the right. He wears flag-officer's undress uniform, 1767-83, of blue jacket and gold braid with the ribbon and star of the Order of Bath and a tie-wig. He holds his sword in his right hand and stands against a rocky background with, on the left, the fleet at anchor together with a barge flying the Union flag.

Hawke is best known for his defeat of the French fleet in Quiberon Bay in November 1759 - an extremely hazardous action fought close in on a rocky coast, in the fading light of a November evening. This crowned an already distinguished active career in which he had been knighted in 1747, as a very junior rear-admiral, for his victory over the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre. He was later First Lord of the Admiralty, 1766-71 and became Admiral of the Fleet in 1768, but was five years into retirement before George III (who disapproved of his political views) eventually made him 1st Baron Hawke. Cotes was a pastellist who turned to oil painting to enable him to execute larger-scale works. In 1765, he became a director of the Society of Artists, with whom he had exhibited since 1760, and became an important figure in the London art world. He was instrumental in setting up the Royal Academy in 1768.

Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, 1705-1781, 1st Baron Hawke. Francis Cotes. Scanned transparency and crop of BHC2754
Date from 1768 until 1770
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1770-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions Painting: 1283 mm x 1030 mm; Frame: 1450 mm x 1215 mm x 125 mm
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
Current location
Royal Museums Greenwich
Accession number
BHC2754
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Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14228
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Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH30
file number: 4G10.031
id number: BHC2754
Collection
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Oil paintings

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