File:Flagmen of Lowestoft- Vice-Admiral Sir Christopher Myngs, 1625-66 RMG BHC2874.tiff
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Peter Lely: Flagmen of Lowestoft: Vice-Admiral Sir Christopher Myngs, 1625-66
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Flagmen of Lowestoft: Vice-Admiral Sir Christopher Myngs, 1625-66  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Flagmen of Lowestoft: Vice-Admiral Sir Christopher Myngs, 1625-66 A three-quarter length portrait of Sir Christopher Myngs in a dark brown silk coat with thin strips of gold. The scabbard of his sword hangs on a heavy gold baldric, or sash, which he holds in his left hand. The half drawn sword is held in his right hand. The right background consists of rock and foliage and a ship in action appears on the left. Myngs was described by Pepys as a 'very stout man, and a man of great parts, and a most excellent tongue among ordinary men'. In the Second Dutch War he fought as a flag officer at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665, and the Four Days Fight in 1666. On the fourth day he was heavily engaged with De Liefde when he was shot through the throat. He remained standing on deck compressing the wound with his fingers until he fell, shot again through the neck. He died some days later. At the Restoration Lely was appointed Principal Painter to Charles II. This portrait was commissioned by HRH the Duke of York, following the Battle of Lowestoft, the first fleet action of the Second Dutch War, and is one of the flagmen portraits following the Battle of Lowestoft, the first fleet action of the Second Dutch War. It was certainly seen by Pepys in Lely's studio and described by him as being begun or finished on 18 April 1666. The portrait is inscribed 'Sir Christopher Myms'. |
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Christopher Myngs |
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| Date | 1665 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Painting: 1240 mm x 1017 mm; Frame: 1457 mm x 1240 mm x 105 mm; Overall weight: 37kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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BHC2874 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14347 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: GH40 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC2874 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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