Admiral_The_Honourable_Charles_Stewart,_1681-1741.jpg

Summary

Allan Ramsay : Admiral The Honourable Charles Stewart wikidata:Q124256582 reasonator:Q124256582
Artist
Allan Ramsay (1713–1784) wikidata:Q560792
Allan Ramsay
Description British painter and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 13 October 1713 / 1713 Edit this at Wikidata 10 August 1784 / 1784 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Edinburgh Dover
Work period 1729 Edit this at Wikidata –1773 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London , Rome , Edinburgh
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q560792
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Admiral The Honourable Charles Stewart
label QS:Len,"Admiral The Honourable Charles Stewart"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Admiral The Honourable Charles Stewart A three-quarter-length portrait to right, wearing a blue velvet coat lined with red silk, blue breeches and a red waistcoat laced with gold. His dress wig is white and he reclines against a gun barrel gesturing to the right with his left hand. The artist has indicated the subject's loss of his right hand by the positioning of the stump of his forearm in a pocket. In the right background a ship is shown in action. The portrait shows the sitter in old age.
Date 1740
date QS:P571,+1740-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 104 × 112 cm (40.9 × 44 in)
institution QS:P195,Q1199924
Inscriptions The portrait is signed 'A Ramsay' bottom left, although the inscription top right describing the sitter as 'The Duke of Argyle & Greenwich' is erroneous.
Source/Photographer [collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14510.html Collections of the National Maritime Museum]

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