Portrait of the Earl of Sandwich

The Earl of Sandwich
ArtistThomas Gainsborough
Year1783
TypeOil on canvas, portrait
LocationNational Maritime Museum, London

Portrait of the Earl of Sandwich is a 1783 painting by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough depicting a full-length view of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.[1][2] Sandwich had recently left the post of First Lord of the Admiralty which he had held three times since 1748, having overseen British naval operations during the American Revolutionary War. Sandwich is shown against the backdrop of Greenwich Hospital and holds a plan of James Stuart's design for the infirmary completed in the 1760s during Sandwich's earlier term as First Lord.[3]

It was commissioned from Gainsborough by the current governor of the hospital Admiral Hugh Palliser as a gesture of thanks to Sandwich for his political patronage. It is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum.[3] A 1788 engraving by John Keyse Sherwin is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.[4]

References

  1. ^ Whitley p. 194
  2. ^ Bonehill pp. 22–23
  3. ^ a b "John Montagu, 1718-92, 4th Earl of Sandwich, 1st Lord of the Admiralty". Royal Museums Greenwich. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  4. ^ "John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 8 December 2024.

Bibliography

  • Bonehill, John. (ed.) Art for the Nation: The Oil Paintings Collections of the National Maritime Museum. National Maritime Museum, 2006.
  • Whitley, William Thomas. Thomas Gainsborough. Smith, Elder & Company, 1915.
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