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Berry was flag-captain to Nelson at the Battle of the Nile and commanded ships at Trafalgar and San Domingo. This half-length portrait and the three-quarter length version in the Greenwich Hospital Collection (BHC2554) both present questions of attribution. This portrait, when acquired in 1953, was said to be by William Beechey but is not mentioned in Beechey’s account books. It has subsequently been attributed to Thomas Phillips. BHC2554 has traditionally been described as being by John Singleton Copley (1737–1815) and is said been painted in 1815 (the year of Copley’s death at the age of 78). It was presented to Greenwich Hospital by Berry’s widow in 1835 when in a letter from Lady Berry to Edward Hawke Locker it is described as being by Copley.
Title
Captain Sir Edward Berry (1768–1831)
Date
19th C
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 76 x W 63.5 cm
Accession number
BHC2650
Work type
Painting
