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anonymous: Admiral Edward Boscawen (1711-1761)  wikidata:Q50866050 reasonator:Q50866050
Artist
After Joshua Reynolds  (1723–1792)  wikidata:Q194402 s:en:Author:Joshua Reynolds q:en:Joshua Reynolds
 
After Joshua Reynolds
Description British painter, writer, art collector and visual artist
Date of birth/death 16 July 1723 Edit this at Wikidata 23 February 1792 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Plympton Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London, Plympton, Italy
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q194402
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Admiral Edward Boscawen (1711-1761) Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Admiral Edward Boscawen (1711-1761) Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Admiral Edward Boscawen (1711-1761) Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Admiral Edward Boscawen (1711-1761)

A full length slightly to right of Boscawen, wearing flag officer’s undress uniform and grey tie wig. His clothes are carefully shown, including the embroidered detailing on his white silk stockings He stands on the rocky shore littered with sea creatures, and with his back to a stormy sea. A ship is visible in the distance on the left, flying a blue flag at the fore on the left.

The sitter distinguished himself when commanding the ‘Namur’ at the battle of Finisterre in 1747. In the same year he commenced the abortive expedition against Mauritius, having been made a rear-admiral. At the beginning of the Seven Years War he commanded a squadron in North America but was forced to return home when there was disease in the fleet which killed some 2,000 men. As the admiral at Portsmouth in 1757 he signed the order to shoot Admiral Byng. In the following year he commanded the fleet at the taking of Louisbourg and in 1759 he fought an action off Lagos with the French Toulon squadron which was trying to join the Brest Fleet. In this action three of the enemy were captured and two destroyed, including the flagship. Boscawen ranks among the most important of the navy's officers in the mid-18th century. He was nicknamed Old Dreadnought by sailors and certainly his interest did much to improve their health and living conditions.

This is a copy by Reynolds of the painting owned by Lord Falmouth painted in 1755-56.

Admiral Edward Boscawen (1711-1761)
Date circa 1824
date QS:P571,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
-25
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions Painting: 2335 mm x 1525 mm; Frame: 2680 mm x 1765 mm x 150 mm
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
Current location
institution QS:P195,Q1199924
Accession number
BHC2565
Notes Depiction association: full length.
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Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14039
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Identifier
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Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH49
Loan File Number: Y2000.023
entry number: BHC2565
file number: 4G10.031
id number: BHC2565
Collection
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Oil paintings

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