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Henry William Pickersgill: Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander John Ball, 1757-1809  wikidata:Q50879191 reasonator:Q50879191
Artist
Henry William Pickersgill  (1782–1875)  wikidata:Q3133160
 
Henry William Pickersgill
Alternative names
Henry Pickersgill; R.A. Pickersgill; Pickersgill
Description British painter and librarian
Date of birth/death 3 December 1782 Edit this at Wikidata 21 April 1875 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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London
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artist QS:P170,Q3133160
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Title
Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander John Ball, 1757-1809 Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander John Ball, 1757-1809 Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander John Ball, 1757-1809 Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander John Ball, 1757-1809

A three-quarter-length portrait to left showing Ball in rear-admiral's full-dress uniform, 1795-1812. He is depicted wearing cuffs and buttons that are incorrect for a rear-admiral of this period. Ball commanded the 'Alexander', 74 guns, under Nelson in the Mediterranean, whose flagship he saved from being wrecked in a storm. After participating in the Battle of the Nile, 1798, he was engaged in the blockade of Malta and became the civil commissioner and thus in effect the governor there, when it surrendered in 1801. He wears the Nile medal. His left arm cradles a telescope and he is leaning against a cannon while his right hand holds the lower end of the telescope. The harbour visible in the background to the left is probably Valletta.

Pickersgill studied under the landscape artist George Arnald, 1802-05, and entered the Royal Academy school in 1805. He established a highly successful practice as a portrait painter, and after the portrait painter Thomas Philips's death was so much in demand that he died a wealthy man.

Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander John Ball, 1757-1809
Date September 1805
date QS:P571,+1805-09-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions Painting: 1270 mm x 1016 mm; Frame: 1465 mm x 1218 mm x 90 mm
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
Current location
Royal Museums Greenwich
Accession number
BHC2528
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Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14002
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Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH34
file number: 4G10.031
id number: BHC2528
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Oil paintings

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