File:Queen Victoria's Visit to HMS 'Queen' at Portsmouth, 1 March 1842 RMG BHC0629.tiff
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editRobert Strickland Thomas: Queen Victoria's Visit to HMS 'Queen' at Portsmouth, 1 March 1842
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Lieutenant Robert Strickland Thomas |
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Description |
English: Queen Victoria's Visit to HMS 'Queen' at Portsmouth, 1 March 1842 The painting records an event which took place on first of March 1842, during Queen Victoria's visit to Portsmouth. The Queen was accompanied by her husband Prince Albert, together with the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, his two sons Prince Augustus and Prince Leopold, the Duke of Wellington and others, as she toured Spithead in the steamer 'Black Eagle'. She then visited HMS 'Queen', 110 guns, which was anchored at Spithead and was the flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir E. Owen. His red flag is shown flying from the main, together with the red ensign, Union flag and the Royal Standard. The visit took place on a foggy day with heavy drizzle, which the artist has suggested with low clouds and a black forbidding sea. Contemporary accounts record that the yards of the ships at Spithead were manned for the occasion and in the painting the sailors are shown standing on the yards wearing blue jackets and white trousers. As the 'Black Eagle' approached the 'Queen', guns were fired in salute very close by, and in the painting, both the ship on the right and the left are shown firing salutes. The royal party then boarded the 'Queen' where Queen Victoria inspected the ship. She visited the sailors' s quarters and asked to try a tot of rum. The ship on the far left flying the blue ensign and the flag of Admiral of the Blue is probably the 'Formidable'. The 'Queen' is shown in the centre of the painting, broadside to port, with a carved figurehead showing the head of a queen wearing a crown. Immediately in front of the 'Queen' is the 'Black Eagle' and the royal party are visible by the gangway. They are waving to the dignitaries and sightseers who have braved the weather in a flotilla of small ships to see the event. The women wave their handkerchiefs and the men their hats and even in the small boats the men are standing up to wave. The coastline of the Portsmouth is visible in the distance. A number of sketches by the artist relating to this ship are in the NMM together with their accompanying notes. The artist learnt to paint while he was serving in the Royal Navy. He later took up painting as a profession to augment his half-pay, and concentrated on naval subjects. The picture is signed and dated 'R S Thomas, Pinx 1842'. |
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Date |
1842 date QS:P571,+1842-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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oil on canvas ![]() |
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Dimensions | Painting: 483 mm x 686 mm; Frame: 590 mm x 775 mm | |||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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Accession number |
BHC0629 |
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Notes | Signed and dated in lower right sea: R. S. Thomas pxt 1842. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12121 | |||||||||||||||||||
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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 InfoField | Acquisition Number: 1946-437.76 id number: BHC0629 |
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Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
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