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This work is currently framed together with two other portraits of Greenwich pensioners (BHC2741 and BHC3148).This sensitive sketch is one of Burnet’s studies of old seamen for a painting of 1837 called ‘Greenwich Pensioners and Naval Heroes’, which was exhibited at the British Institution in 1837. It shows pensioners celebrating the anniversary of Trafalgar in Greenwich Park and was painted speculatively to complement David Wilkie’s ‘Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch’, owned by the Duke of Wellington, who also bought Burnet’s picture. Both are hanging in Apsley House, and the National Maritime Museum holds a print of the completed Burnet picture. The pensioner shown may be the same John Wilkinson/John Adams, represented in two later watercolours by Frederick Cruikshank also in the Collection.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

John Wilkinson, a Greenwich Pensioner

Date

c.1832

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 30.1 x W 22.8 cm

Accession number

BHC3099

Work type

Painting

National Maritime Museum

Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England

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Artist or maker

John Burnet

1784–1868

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