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A head-and-shoulders portrait study of an elderly man in a woollen or cloth cap, wearing a jacket, waistcoat and stock. This is one of a series of nine head-and-shoulders portraits of pensioners at the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, all wearing typical pensioners' dress. These former naval seamen were painted by Burnet as studies for his picture of 'Greenwich Pensioners Commemorating the Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar', possibly commissioned by the Duke of Wellington in 1835 as a pendant to David Wilkie's 'Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch'. It was exhibited in 1837 and shows Greenwich Pensioners commemorating Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar in Greenwich Park, with the Hospital in the background. This work is still displayed at Apsley House, London.
Title
Joseph Miller, a Greenwich Pensioner
Date
c.1832
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 30.5 x W 23 cm
Accession number
BHC2862
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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