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Arthur Stockdale Cope: Naval Officers of World War I  wikidata:Q16998568 reasonator:Q16998568
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Arthur Stockdale Cope  (1857–1940)  wikidata:Q4800371
 
Arthur Stockdale Cope
Alternative names
Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope; A. S. Cope; Sir Arthur Cope; Sir Cope
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 2 November 1857 Edit this at Wikidata 5 July 1940 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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artist QS:P170,Q4800371
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Title
Naval Officers of World War I
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
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The individuals depicted are:

  1. Admiral Sir Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair, commander of the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron from 1915, then of the 6th Light Cruiser Squadron from 1917
  2. Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan, 1st Baronet, commander of the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron from June 1917 in the Baltic
  3. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Osmond Brock, Beatty's Chief of Staff at the Grand Fleet from 1916 to 1919
  4. Admiral Sir William Goodenough, commander of the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron from 1913 to 1916
  5. Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet, commander of the 1st Cruiser Squadron from January 1915, killed at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916
  6. Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock, Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station until his death at the Battle of Coronel in November 1914
  7. Rear-Admiral Sir Horace Hood, commander of the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron from March 1915 to his death at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916
  8. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet, commander of the Harwich Force of destroyers
  9. Admiral of the Fleet Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, commander of the Dover Patrol from January 1918
  10. Admiral of the Fleet David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, commander of the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron from 1913 to December 1916, and then Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet
  11. Vice-Admiral Sir Trevylyan Napier, commander of the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron from December 1914, then the 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron from February 1915, then the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron from July 1917, and commander of the Light Cruiser Force from January 1918
  12. Admiral Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, commander of the 5th Battle Squadron from October 1915 to October 1918
  13. Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, commander of the Australian Fleet from January 1917 to September 1918
  14. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Madden, 1st Baronet, Jellicoe's Chief of Staff at the Grand Fleet from 1914 to 1916, then commander of the 1st Battle Squadron from December 1916
  15. Admiral of the Fleet Rosslyn Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss, First Sea Lord from December 1917 to November 1919
  16. Admiral Sir Montague Browning, commander of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron to 1916, then Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies from 1916 to 1918, and then commander of the 4th Battle Squadron.
  17. Admiral of the Fleet Sir John de Robeck, 1st Baronet, commander in the Dardanelles from March 1915, and then commander of the 2nd Battle Squadron from November 1916
  18. Admiral Sir William Pakenham, commander of the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron from March 1915 to September 1916, then commander of the Australian Fleet to January 1917, and then commander of the Battle Cruiser Fleet from June 1917
  19. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cecil Burney, 1st Baronet, commander of the Channel Fleet from August to December 1914, then commander of the 1st Battle Squadron, and then Second Sea Lord from November 1916 to September 1917, and then Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland
  20. Admiral of the Fleet Prince Louis of Battenberg, First Sea Lord from December 1912 to October 914
  21. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet, commander at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914 and then commander of the 4th Battle Squadron
  22. Admiral of the Fleet John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet from 1914 to 1916, and then First Sea Lord from December 1916 to July 1917
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Date 1921
date QS:P571,+1921-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 264 × 514 cm (8.6 × 16.8 ft)
institution QS:P195,Q238587
Accession number
NPG 1913
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Source/Photographer National Portrait Gallery, London
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