File:Captain John Schank (1740-1823) RMG BHC3014.tiff
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anonymous: Captain John Schank (1740-1823)
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British School, 18th century |
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Captain John Schank (1740-1823)  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Captain John Schank (1740-1823) A head and shoulders portrait painted between 1795 and 1805, since it shows the sitter in the 1795-1812 captain's full-dress uniform (over three years) and was engraved as an oval in the 'European Magazine', 1 July 1805: see PAD3348. Schank was an officer of practical mechanical bent who started life in the merchant service and entered the navy as a seaman in 1758. He became a lieutenant during the American war in 1776, the year he was put in charge of constructing a flotilla on Lake Champlain, which defeated a rebel squadron there. He rose to captain in 1783 and is best remembered for developing vessels fitted with 'sliding keels' (what we would now call a drop keel) for operating in shallow water, but also being good sailers. The first was built in Boston in 1774 and later the Admiralty ordered several to be built experimentally. The Museum has a model of the 'Lady Nelson' of 1799 ( SLR0601), which was successfully used as a survey vessel. Schank served as a transport agent on several expeditions in the first part of the French wars of 1793-1815 and became a full admiral by seniority in 1821. |
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| Depicted people |
John Schank |
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| Date | circa 1795-1805 | |||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Painting: 762 mm x 635 mm; Frame: 878 x 749 x 95 mm | |||||||||||
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BHC3014 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14487 | |||||||||||
| 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 | id number: BHC3014 | |||||||||||
| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||
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