File:Captain Sir Edward Berry, 1768-1831 RMG BHC2554.tiff
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Summary
John Singleton Copley: Captain Sir Edward Berry, 1768-1831
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Captain Sir Edward Berry, 1768-1831  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Captain Sir Edward Berry, 1768-1831 A three-quarter length portrait to the left, showing Berry in his captain’s undress uniform (over three years) of the 1812–25 pattern. He wears the neck decoration of the KCB and his three medals for commanding ships at the Nile, Trafalgar and San Domingo. The portrait was begun by Copley in 1815 and finished by Thomas Phillips in December 1839, having been presented to Greenwich Hospital by Berry’s widow in 1835. Berry, like Nelson, came from Norfolk. His long association with Nelson began when he served as his first lieutenant in the 'Agamemnon'. He was with him as a volunteer additional commander in the Captain at Cape St Vincent and was his flag-captain in the Vanguard throughout the campaign that ended with the Battle of the Nile. He was given the honour of carrying home Nelson's report of the victory but was captured by the 'Généreux', one of the French ships that escaped from Aboukir Bay. In 1805 Berry was himself captain of the 'Agamemnon' at Trafalgar. He was appointed KCB on 2 January 1815. |
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| Date | circa 1815 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Frame: 1732 mm x 1418 mm x 110 mm;Painting: 1420 mm x 1120 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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BHC2554 |
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| Notes | Production: begun by. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14028 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: GH108 Loan File Number: Y2000.023 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC2554 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| current | 18:00, 27 September 2017 |  | 4,566 × 5,837 (76.25 MB) | Fæ | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings (1815), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14028 #1529 |
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