HMS 'Britannia' Entering Portsmouth Harbour RMG BHC3745.jpg
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Robert Strickland Thomas: HMS 'Britannia' Entering Portsmouth Harbour
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Lieutenant Robert Strickland Thomas |
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English: HMS 'Britannia' Entering Portsmouth Harbour  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||
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marine art |
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| Description |
English: HMS 'Britannia' Entering Portsmouth Harbour Ship portrait. A portrait of the Britannia, broadside to port, entering Portsmouth Harbour. The buildings of Portsmouth Dockyard can be seen in the distance to the left and on the far right on either side of the harbour wall. In the foreground are several small boats with men variously occupied attending to them. A ship at anchor can be seen in the distance on the left. A yacht with a crowded deck is visible on the right. There is a barrel in the water on the left. Built in 1820, the 'Britannia' returned from the Mediterranean in 1835. From 1836, she was flagship at Portsmouth and remained there until she went out of commission from 1842. The artist learned to paint while he was serving in the Royal Navy. He later took up painting as a profession to augment his half pay and concentrated on Royal Naval subjects. R.S. Thomas was a lieutenant but was forced by deafness to give up active service in 1814. He is known to have been living in Portsmouth in the early 1840s. |
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| Date | 1836 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Painting: 457 x 685 mm | |||||||||||||||||||
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BHC3745 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/15218 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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: BHC3745 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||
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