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Sir James Thornhill (1675–1734)

Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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A half-length portrait to right wearing a dark dun-coloured coat and a grey full-bottomed wig. He holds his palette and brushes in his left hand. The background is a lighter colour. Thornhill was a portrait and history painter, the most successful painter of decorative interiors of the English school, and the first native British artist to be knighted (1720). His masterpiece is the Painted Hall at Greenwich, which he was commissioned to do in 1707. He completed the ceiling in 1712 and the remainder by 1726. Laroon was an English painter and draughtsman of French origin. In 1707 he enlisted in the army, participating in campaigns in Flanders, Spain and Scotland. During a break from military life, 1712 to 1715, he joined the Rose and Crown Club in London and worked in Kneller's Academy, where Thornhill became a director in 1716.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

Sir James Thornhill (1675–1734)

Date

c.1712–1715

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 76 x W 63.5 cm

Accession number

BHC3053

Acquisition method

National Maritime Museum (Greenwich Hospital Collection)

Work type

Painting

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