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Thomas Lawrence: Captain Sir Edward Pellew, later 1st Viscount Exmouth  wikidata:Q50854278 reasonator:Q50854278
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Thomas Lawrence  (1769–1830)  wikidata:Q312096 s:en:Portal:Thomas Lawrence
 
Thomas Lawrence
Description British painter and portraitist
Date of birth/death 13 April 1769 Edit this at Wikidata 7 January 1830 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bristol London
Work period 1780 Edit this at Wikidata–1830 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q312096
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Captain Sir Edward Pellew, later 1st Viscount Exmouth Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Captain Sir Edward Pellew, later 1st Viscount Exmouth Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Captain Sir Edward Pellew, later 1st Viscount Exmouth Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
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English: Captain Sir Edward Pellew, later 1st Viscount Exmouth

A portrait of Captain Sir Edward Pellew, later Ist Viscount Exmouth, by Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA, about 1797. Pellew is best known for his bombardment of Algiers in 1816, which forced the release of over 1200 Christian slaves. Lawrence’s portrait may commemorate an event of 1797 when he was captain of the frigate ‘Indefatigable’ and drove the much larger French ship, ‘Droits de l’Homme’, aground on the Brittany coast. Pellew was already celebrated by this time, since when commanding the frigate 'Nymphe' in the Channel at the start of the French Revolutionary War, he fell in with the French frigate 'Cleoptatre' off Start Point on 18 June 1793 and captured her after a short by bloody fight: this was greeted in England with acclaim as the first such single-ship capture of the war and he was knighted on the 29th. Romantic images made Lawrence the leading portrait painter of the Regency period and he later became president of the Royal Academy.

The original owner of the portrait is said to have been Captain William Locker who died in 1800, but is perhaps more likely to have been Edward Hawke Locker, who established the collection of naval paintings at Greenwich Hospital in 1823. In 1804 Locker had become Pellew’s civil secretary, a position he held until 1814 and it is possible that Pellew gave Locker the portrait in this year, especially as Charles Turner’s mezzotint was published in 1815 and may have been commissioned by Locker.

Pellew is shown wearing captain’s full dress uniform, 1795–1812, which indicates a date between 1795 and 1804 when he was promoted to rear-admiral.

'Sir Edward Pellew: Lord Exmouth'
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institution QS:P195,Q1199924
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
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ZBA0434 (Royal Museums Greenwich) Edit this at Wikidata
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Oil paintings

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