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Flagmen of Lowestoft: Sir Jeremiah Smith (d.1675)

Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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A three-quarter-length portrait to the left in a brown silk coat fastened with gold clips and with a gold-tasselled red sash round his waist. He is leaning forward onto a stone plinth, his right hand fingering his neck cloth. His telescope rests on the plinth in front of him, and there is a ship beyond. In the right background is a globe and brown draperies. Smith fought as a captain against the Dutch in the First Dutch War and in the Second he commanded the 'Mary', 62 guns, at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665. He was Admiral of the Blue Squadron in the Four Days' Fight and the St James's Day Fight in 1666. Smith quarrelled bitterly with Sir Robert Holmes who accused him of cowardice. The portrait is inscribed 'Sir Jeremiah Smith', and it is one of the 'flagmen' portraits commissioned by Charles II's brother James, Duke of York, after the Battle of Lowestoft. This was the first major action of the Second Dutch War, in which James commanded the fleet.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

Flagmen of Lowestoft: Sir Jeremiah Smith (d.1675)

Date

1666

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 127 x W 101.5 cm

Accession number

BHC3031

Acquisition method

National Maritime Museum (Greenwich Hospital Collection)

Work type

Painting

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