File:A Merchant Captain (possibly John Elton) with Elton's Quadrant RMG BHC3128.tiff

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John Vanderbank: A Merchant Captain (possibly John Elton) with Elton's Quadrant  wikidata:Q50861315 reasonator:Q50861315
Artist
John Vanderbank  (1694–1739)  wikidata:Q2053900
 
John Vanderbank
Alternative names
Jan van der Banck (Bonck or Banc)
Description English portrait painter
Date of birth/death 9 September 1694 Edit this at Wikidata 23 December 1739 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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London (1727–1739); London; France (–1727) Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q2053900
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A Merchant Captain (possibly John Elton) with Elton's Quadrant Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Len,"A Merchant Captain (possibly John Elton) with Elton's Quadrant"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: A Merchant Captain (possibly John Elton) with Elton's Quadrant

A three-quarter-length portrait facing to left in a blue coat edged with white fur. The sitter also wears a yellow waistcoat with buttons at an angle across the front. He has a hanger (short hunting sword) thrust into a green sash and on his head he wears a peaked fur hat. He holds an Elton quadrant and stands against a background of rocks. The prominence given to the experimental quadrant may indicate that the sitter is Elton himself or someone closely associated with him, possibly Captain Walter Hoxton. He was captain of the ship 'Baltimore' and tested Elton's quadrant on a voyage from the Thames to Maryland and back in 1730. There is a merchant ship on the right.

The artist was an English painter and illustrator of Dutch origin, and son of John Vanderbank the elder, a tapestry-weaver in Soho, London, who died in 1717. He was a successful portrait painter who had studied at Sir Godfrey Kneller's academy from its foundation in 1711. With Louis Cheron, he also founded an art academy in St Martin's Lane in 1720, where great emphasis was placed on life-drawing. In the 1720s the academy attracted sitters and Vanderbank's included Isaac Newton (1725) as well as royal commissions. He is also thought to have influenced William Hogarth and was a book illustrator. The painting is signed 'Jn° Vanderbanck fec' bottom right.

A Merchant Captain with Elton's Quadrant
Date circa 1730s
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions Painting: 1270 mm x 1015 mm; Frame: 1297 mm x 1092 mm x 50 mm
institution QS:P195,Q1199924
Accession number
BHC3128
Notes Signed.
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Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14601
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Acquisition Number: OP1959-20
id number: BHC3128
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Oil paintings

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