File:Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703 RMG BHC2947.jpg
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Godfrey Kneller: Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre | portrait | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Samuel Pepys, 1633-1703 A half-length portrait to right in a feigned oval. He wears a brown silk coat and brown full-bottomed wig. Pepys's fame derives both from the private diary he kept from 1660 to 1669, which gives a unique insight into both his times and his character, and from his importance as a Naval administrator over a much longer period from 1660, initially under the patronage of his cousin, Edward Montagu, first Earl of Sandwich. When Sandwich was killed at the Battle of Solebay in 1672, James, Duke of York became his patron, notwithstanding the Duke's exclusion from office as Lord High Admiral in the following year. Pepys also won the confidence of James's elder brother, Charles II. He was initially Clerk of the Acts (Secretary of the Navy Board) and, from 1686 to 1688, Secretary of the Admiralty, where he created a modern state department out of an archaic office. He left the Admiralty in February 1689 after his patron - now James II - was driven into exile by the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 that put William and Mary (James's daughter) on the throne. The portrait was thus painted by Kneller during a turbulent year for Pepys, and is inscribed and dated on the back 'Mr Pepes G.Kneller fecit 1689'. It is one of a pair, painted for him, the other being of his former secretary and faithful friend William Hewer (BHC2765), with whom he lived in retirement at Clapham until his death. Both pictures remained in Pepys's family until purchased for the Museum by Sir James Caird in 1931. This one was first engraved in a small format by Robert White in 1690 (see PAD2688). Another version was engraved by T. Bragg in 1827 as frontispiece for volume 1 of the octavo five-volume (second) edition of Pepys's diary of 1828, and subsequent re-issues (see PAI9572). |
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Depicted people | Samuel Pepys | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1689 date QS:P571,+1689-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | Frame: 946 mm x 823 mm x 95 mm; Painting: 760 mm x 635 mm; Overall: 13.8 kg; | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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BHC2947 |
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Notes | Signed and dated 1689. Description: shape: feigned oval. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14420 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 InfoField | Acquisition Number: 1931-3 Caird Catalogue Number (CCAT): CC VI, P6, 45 id number: BHC2947 |
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Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
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