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A half-length life sketch, with the sitter leaning on his right arm and looking to the left, his hands implied as clasped before him. Admiral Sturdee was the flag officer of the squadron sent to revenge the destruction of two British cruisers by Admiral von Spee off Coronel on the Chilean coast. His force succeeded in sinking the 'Scharnhorst' and 'Gneisenau' off the Falkland Islands on 8th December 1914. This was a preparatory sketch from life for the painting of a group of officers, 'Naval Officers of World War I', 1921, at the National Portrait Gallery by Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope. It is inscribed on the front, 'Admiral Sir F D Sturdee, Study for Naval War Group'. The other officers in the finished portrait include Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, fourth Bt; Sir Horace Hood; Sir John Michael De Roebeck, Bt; Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes; Sir Cecil Burney, 1st Bt; David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty; Sir Trevylyan Napier and Louis Alexander.
Title
Admiral Sir Frederick Doveton Sturdee (1859–1925)
Date
1920
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 36.2 x W 63.3 cm
Accession number
BHC3042
Work type
Painting