File:Captain the Hon. Charles Phipps, 1753–86 RMG BHC3111.tiff
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[edit]Thomas Gainsborough: Captain the Hon. Charles Phipps, 1753–86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q192720 |
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Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre | portrait | |||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: Captain the Hon. Charles Phipps, 1753–86 When the portrait was acquired in 1948 it was described as an unidentified naval officer by Gainsborough. It was subsequently re-attributed to Gainsborough Dupont, Gainsborough’s nephew, studio assistant and painter in his own right. In 2005 the officer was identified as Charles Phipps, the fourth son of Constantine Phipps and brother of Constantine John Phipps (1744–92), Baron Mulgrave, naval officer and politician. It was originally painted on paper board (made of compressed sheets of good quality paper). Later, perhaps in the early 20th century, this was stuck onto a canvas stretcher using water-based glue. This process caused considerable damage to the board and to the paint surface. Probably at this point much of the background paint was scraped off, and the whole portrait heavily overpainted to create a more acceptable image. In 2006 the overpaint was removed revealing a portrait more like Gainsborough than Dupont, closely relating in both pose and scale to existing portraits of Phipps by Gainsborough. What is interesting is that in this ‘sketch’ or ‘study’, Phipps appears younger and less care worn than in the completed portraits, although for some reason the flesh tone has a pronounced raw quality. One might speculate that it may have been painted when Phipps became a captain in 1776. |
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Depicted people | Charles Phipps | |||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
circa 1785 date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | Frame: 671 mm x 535 mm x 95 mm;Overall: 6 kg;Painting: 510 mm x 380 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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Accession number |
BHC3111 |
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Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14584 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 InfoField | Acquisition Number: 1948-79 id number: BHC3111 |
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Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
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