Historical Portraits Some Notes On the Painted Portraits of Celebrated Characte
Historical Portraits Some Notes On the Painted Portraits of Celebrated Characte
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There are also portraits of Sandwich at Hampton Court and in the National Portrait Gallery.
A portrait of the famous Sir Cloudesley Shovel by Michael Dahl, taken from Hampton Court, is now in the Painted Gallery at Greenwich.
A portrait of Captain William Dampier, who served in the Dutch War, but is better known as a navigator than as a fighting sailor, by Thomas Murray, was formerly in the British Museum, but is now deposited in the National Portrait Gallery. It was Dampier who rescued Alexand...er Selkirk from the Island of Juan Fernandez.
Admiral Edward Russell, Earl of Orford, the victor of La Hogue, 1692, was painted by Kneller, and the portrait is at Hampton Court.
Admiral Edward Vernon, the hero of Portobello, sat to Gainsborough. Philip Thicknesse, who visited Ipswich in 1758, wrote: "I immediately . . . Visited Mr. Gainsborough. He received me in his painting room, in which stood several por- traits, truly drawn, perfectly like, but stiffly painted and worse coloured. Among them was the late Admiral Vernon's, for it was not many years after he had taken Porto Bello with six ships only.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
There are also portraits of Sandwich at Hampton Court and in the National Portrait Gallery.
A portrait of the famous Sir Cloudesley Shovel by Michael Dahl, taken from Hampton Court, is now in the Painted Gallery at Greenwich.
A portrait of Captain William Dampier, who served in the Dutch War, but is better known as a navigator than as a fighting sailor, by Thomas Murray, was formerly in the British Museum, but is now deposited in the National Portrait Gallery. It was Dampier who rescued Alexand...er Selkirk from the Island of Juan Fernandez.
Admiral Edward Russell, Earl of Orford, the victor of La Hogue, 1692, was painted by Kneller, and the portrait is at Hampton Court.
Admiral Edward Vernon, the hero of Portobello, sat to Gainsborough. Philip Thicknesse, who visited Ipswich in 1758, wrote: "I immediately . . . Visited Mr. Gainsborough. He received me in his painting room, in which stood several por- traits, truly drawn, perfectly like, but stiffly painted and worse coloured. Among them was the late Admiral Vernon's, for it was not many years after he had taken Porto Bello with six ships only.
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