File:Vice-Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour, 1759-1801 RMG BHC3020.tiff
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John Hoppner: Vice-Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour, 1759-1801
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Vice-Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour, 1759-1801  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Vice-Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour, 1759-1801 A half-length portrait to left in vice-admiral's full-dress uniform, 1795-1812. A son of the first Marquis of Hertford, Seymour was a captain by the age of twenty and saw considerable action in the American War, including at Howe's relief of Gibraltar in 1782. After the peace he began leading a rakish life in London, becoming intimate with George, Prince of Wales - a course from which he was rescued by making an excellent marriage. In 1790, while in command of the 'Canada', he was badly hurt when accidentally hit on the head by a sounding lead and had to retire ashore for some time. At the beginning of the French Revolutionary War in 1793 he commanded the 'Leviathan', 74 guns, at the taking of Toulon and at Howe's victory of the Glorious First of June 1794. In the following June he rose to rear-admiral and fought in Lord Bridport's action off the Ile de Groix. He was a member of the Board of Admiralty from 1795 to 1798 and during this time was instrumental in introducing epaulettes into the naval uniform. This was as a response to the lack of respect accorded to him by the Royalist French troops at Toulon when he went about without them. The artist has intentionally incorporated the epaulettes in the portrait as well as Seymour's captain's gold medal for the action of 1 June 1794. Seymour remained with the Channel fleet until 1799, when he was appointed Commander-in-Chief at Jamaica. He died during this service. |
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| Date | 1799 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Painting: 763 mm x 633 mm; Frame: 966 mm x 830 mm x 82 mm; Overall: 13.6 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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BHC3020 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14493 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: GH52 Loan File Number: Y2000.023 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC3020 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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