Oval Painting Commemorating a Senior Royal Naval Officer, possibly Admiral Lord Howe
Oval Painting Commemorating a Senior Royal Naval Officer, possibly Admiral Lord Howe

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The association with Lord Howe is solely his name on an apparently mid- to later nineteenth-century label on the back, possible facial appearance and the artist's dates – Bird died in 1819, and Howe on 5th August 1799. The uniform is wholly wrong, save for the presence of epaulettes, which would indicate a date after 1795 and rank of a senior captain (over three years) or flag officer.

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Wolverhampton

Title

Oval Painting Commemorating a Senior Royal Naval Officer, possibly Admiral Lord Howe

Date

c.1800

Medium

oil on copper

Measurements

H 29.9 x W 24.2 cm

Accession number

OP505

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Maria Christiana Cartwright, 1887

Work type

Painting

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