Portrait of a Flag Officer

Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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A three-quarter-length portrait showing the sitter turned half to viewer's right, in the flag officer's full-dress uniform of 1767–1783 and apparently wearing his own hair dressed and powdered. His right hand is on his sword and his left is in a relaxed palm-up conversational gesture lower right against the rather sombre sky background of the canvas. This portrait has been the subject of long confusion, not yet entirely resolved. It was originally acquired in 1935 as an unnamed flag officer and subsequently identified as Sir Chaloner Ogle, Admiral of the Red and 1st Baronet of Martyr Worthy. This was later cast into doubt by knowledge of a half-length portrait by Romney (in the Metropolitan Museum, New York) of another naval officer of the same name and in the same uniform but of very different looks.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

Portrait of a Flag Officer

Date

c.1767

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 91.5 x W 71 cm

Accession number

BHC2919

Work type

Painting

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