File:Vice-Admiral James Saumarez (1757-1836) RMG BHC3010.tiff
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Edwin Williams: Vice-Admiral James Saumarez (1757-1836)
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| Author |
Edwin Williams (after Thomas Phillips) |
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Vice-Admiral James Saumarez (1757-1836)  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Vice-Admiral James Saumarez (1757-1836) A full-length portrait of James de Saumarez in vice-admiral’s full dress uniform. He wears the ribbons and stars of the Bath and the Swedish Order of the Sword, and the medals of the battles of St Vincent and the Nile. He is shown standings on a shore leaning on his fighting sword. At the very beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars, de Saumarez, was in the ‘Crescent’ when he captured the French frigate ‘Reunion’ for which he was knighted. He commanded the ‘Orion’ at the battle of St Vincent, 1797 and was second in command to Nelson at the battle of the Nile in 1798. As a rear-admiral he commanded a detached squadron and in 1801 attacked a small French squadron lying under the guns of the shore battery in Algeciras Bay. When the French sailed, reinforced by a Spanish squadron, de Saumarez was able to follow them and defeat them. From 1808 for five years he commanded the squadron in the Baltic with his flag in the ‘Victory’ supporting British interests there with great diplomatic skill. He was the last honorary general of marines. The painting is a copy made in 1862 by Edwin Williams of the original portrait by Thomas Phillips and is inscribed ‘Edwin Williams after Thos Phillips RA 1862’. |
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| Date | 1862 | |||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Painting: 2387 mm x 1498 mm; Frame: 2680 mm x 1760 mm x 130 mm | |||||||||||||||||||
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BHC3010 |
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| Notes | Signed and dated 1862. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14483 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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: GH79 Loan File Number: Y2000.023 entry number: BHC3010 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC3010 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||
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