File:Flagmen of Lowestoft- Admiral Sir Thomas Allin RMG BHC2512.tiff
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[edit]Peter Lely: Flagmen of Lowestoft: Admiral Sir Thomas Allin
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Flagmen of Lowestoft: Admiral Sir Thomas Allin  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Flagmen of Lowestoft: Admiral Sir Thomas Allin A three-quarter-length portrait to left in a brown silk coat. His left hand rests on his sword, which hangs on a heavy gold embroidered baldric and his right hand points towards ships in action on the left. There is a rocky background on the right. Allin served with Prince Rupert in the exiled royalist fleet after the Civil War. At the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665 he commanded the 'Plymouth', 60 guns, and was knighted for his services. At the Four Days' Fight in 1666, he served again with Rupert in the 'Royal James', 70 guns, and missed the first three days of it since Rupert's division only rejoined Monck at the end. His command of the van squadron at the St James's Day Fight on 25 July 1666 contributed significantly to the defeat of de Ruyter. After the peace he commanded the squadron in the 'Streights' (of Gibraltar) - what would later become the Mediterranean fleet - against the Barbary pirates and then became Comptroller of the Navy. The painting is inscribed 'Sir Thomas Allin' and is one of the 'flagmen' series commissioned by Charles II's brother James, Duke of York, after the Battle of Lowestoft. This was the first major action of the Second Dutch War, in which James commanded the fleet. It is one of those which Pepys noted as begun or finished when, with Allin and Admiral Sir William Batten, he visited Lely's studio on 18 April 1666. Lely, a Dutchman who arrived in England in 1641 after the death of Van Dyck, soon became his successor as leading portraitist of the day. He worked for Charles I, continued to flourish under the Commonwealth and Protectorate, and after the Restoration of 1660 was appointed Principal Painter to Charles II. The full 'flagmen' set consists of thirteen individual portraits, of which George IV presented eleven plus a copy of that of Admiral Sir John Lawson (BHC2833) to Greenwich Hospital in 1824. The originals of Lawson and of Prince Rupert were retained in the Royal Collection, although William IV presented an extended full-length copy of the latter (BHC2990) to the Hospital in 1835. |
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Sir Thomas Allin, 1st Baronet |
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| Date | 1665 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Painting: 1270 mm x 1015 mm; Frame: 1450 mm x 1212 mm x 100 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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BHC2512 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/13986 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH15 Loan File Number: Y2000.023 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC2512 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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