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| Collection | Oil paintings, Fine art, Maritime Art Greenwich |
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| Gallery location | Not on display |
| People | Depiction: Bligh, Captain George Miller Artist: Brown, Mather Provenance: Cottle, Ernest Wyndham |
| Vessels | Victory (1765) |
Object details:
| Object ID | BHC2562 |
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| Description | A half-length facing portrait to the left in captain's (over three years) undress uniform, 1795-1812, with gold epaulettes. Bligh became a captain in 1808. As a lieutenant he was severely wounded by a musket ball at the Battle of Trafalgar and was in 'Victory's' cockpit when Nelson died there (see BHC2894). The artist was an American-born painter who worked in England. Initially he was a free student of Benjamin West and was then admitted as a student to the Royal Academy in January 1782, where he showed 80 paintings altogether. Despite his phenomenal early success, Brown fell on hard times and was disinherited by his father. He then concentrated on creating large unsaleable religious and historical subjects. In 1809 Brown left London to live and work in Bath, Bristol and Lancashire. He returned to London in 1824 and died there in poverty, in a room crowded with unsold paintings. The painting has been signed by the artist. |
| Date made | 1812 |
| Artist/Maker | Brown, Mather |
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| Credit | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Greenwich Hospital Collection |
| Materials | oil on canvas |
| Measurements | Frame: 930 mm x 805 mm x 95 mm;Painting: 762 mm x 635 mm |
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