File:Captain Henry Osborn, 1694-1771 RMG BHC2925.tiff
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[edit]Claude Arnulphy: Captain Henry Osborn, 1694-1771 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q2745814 |
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre | portrait | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: Captain Henry Osborn, 1694-1771 A half-length portrait slightly to right in a blue coat edged with gold lace, and with a gold-laced mariner's cuffs and a red waistcoat, also laced, and a grey tie-wig. Osborn's right hand rests on a box compass, while his left hand lacks cuffs and appears unfinished as does the background of sea, which has no shipping. The portrait was probably painted on board his ship 'Princess Caroline', 80 guns, in Hyères Bay, when the fleet was blockading Toulon. At the ensuing but indecisive Battle of Toulon in 1744, Osborn commanded the 'Princess Caroline' in the main division, and nobly supported Captain William Rowley. The fact that the fleet left after the action probably explains why Arnulphy was unable to finish this picture. In 1758, commqnding a squadron blockading Cartagena, he intercepted the French 80-gun 'Foudroyant' and the 'Oriflamme' , 50, dispatching ships in pursuit which captured the former and destroyed the latter. Shortly afterwards he suffered a stroke which foced him to give up command, though he rose to become Admiral of the White and was appointed Vice-Admiral of England in 1763. John Charnock's 'Biographia Navalis' (1797) gives an unflattering portrait of Osborn as a rather dour character, not supported by other sources. He was perhaps idiosyncratic but reliable, humane, liked by his followers and described by Augustus Hervey as a 'worthy good man'. The French-born artist worked exclusively as a portrait painter and spent most of his working life in Provence. This is one of a group of portraits he painted of English naval officers while Mathews' fleet was blockading Toulon. |
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Date | 1743 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | Frame: 1166 mm x 936 mm x 70 mm;Painting: 915 x 710 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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Accession number |
BHC2925 |
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Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14398 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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: 1939-429 id number: BHC2925 |
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Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
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