File:Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Holmes, 1711-1761 RMG BHC2769.tiff
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anonymous: Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Holmes, 1711-1761
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British School, 18th century |
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Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Holmes, 1711-1761  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Holmes, 1711-1761 Holmes was the son of Henry Holmes, Governor of the Isle of Wight. From 1755, Holmes was mostly commissioned to fleets in North America. In General James Wolfe’s expedition against Canada in 1759 he was appointed third in command of the fleet in the ‘Dublin’ in the St Lawrence under Sir Charles Saunders. When Wolfe had selected his landing site Holmes had the difficult task of ensuring the army’s safe landing. Holmes died at Jamaica on 21 November 1761, and is commemorated with a monument in Westminster Abbey. He is shown wearing flag officer’s undress uniform, 1748–67. The portrait was painted after Holmes promotion to Rear-Admiral of the Blue in 1758. As Dance was in Rome 1754–65 the attribution to him must be questioned. |
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| Depicted people |
Charles Holmes |
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| Date | after 1758 | |||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Frame: 898 mm x 776 mm x 75 mm;Painting: 760 mm x 635 mm | |||||||||||
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BHC2769 |
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| Notes | Production: attributed to. | |||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14242 | |||||||||||
| 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 | Acquisition Number: 1934-15 id number: BHC2769 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||
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