File:Battle of Negapatam, 6 July 1782 RMG BHC0448.tiff
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[edit]Dominic Serres: Battle of Negapatam, 6 July 1782 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dominic Serres, the Elder |
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre | marine art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Battle of Negapatam, 6 July 1782 A depiction of the third of the five fleet actions fought off Ceylon and the east coast of India, at the end of the War of American Independence, between the French and English East Indies squadrons of Pierre-André de Suffren, and Sir Edward Hughes. The others were on 17 February 1782 off Sadras, on 12 April off Providien, on 30 September off Trincomalee and on 30 June 1783 off Porto Novo - or Cuddalore. All were furiously contested, both admirals being tenacious fighters, and at Negapatam the French 'Brilliant', lost 47 killed and 136 wounded. The captain of the 'Sévère', ordered his colours struck but his first lieutenant, refusing to accept this, forcibly shut him up in his cabin and rehoisted them. At the end the British had lost 77 killed and 233 wounded, while the French lost 178 killed and 600 wounded. The picture shows an early stage in the action when the squadrons are still in line. The British line is on the left, in port-bow view, led by Commodore King in the 'Hero', with Hughes in the 'Superb', lying fifth. In the extreme left background can be seen one of the accompanying frigates. The French line is on the right, in starboard-quarter view, with Suffren in the 'Héros', also lying fifth. Serres produced a set of seven large paintings for Hughes, including this one, of his actions with Suffren off the coast of India in 1782-83. On his death in 1794 he left them to the Greenwich Hospital Collection - or rather, his widow presented them as an informal bequest, since they are not mentioned in his will. In about 1835 his former protégé, Admiral Benjamin William Page (1765-1845), was incensed to find them hanging in obscure corridors rather than in the Naval Gallery in the Painted Hall. He persuaded the Hospital to sell him all but the present example and gave all six to Hughes's and his own home town, Ipswich, to hang in the town hall. They remain at Ipswich today. Serres was a well-born Frenchman from Gascony who ran away to sea in merchant service rather than follow family wish that he enter the Church. He probably arrived in England as a naval prisoner of war, took up painting and settled there. His early paintings show the influence of Brooking and Monamy's interpretations of Dutch art but he rapidly achieved recognition for his more documentary visual accounts of sea actions of the Seven Years War, 1756-63, becoming established as England's leading marine painter. His work was even more in demand in the 1770s and 1780s, recording the naval history of the War of American Independence. In 1768 Serres was a founder member of the Royal Academy and at the end of his life its librarian. A well respected and sociable man, he was appointed Marine Painter to George III in 1780. This painting is signed and dated 'D Serres 1786', and inscribed bottom left '3rd Action off Negapatam 6th July 1782'. |
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1786 date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | Painting: 1176 mm x 1829 mm; Frame: 1360 mm x 2062 mm x 92 mm; Weight: 67.2kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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BHC0448 |
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Serres produced a set of seven large paintings for Hughes, including this one, of his actions with Suffren off the coast of India in 1782-83. On his death in 1794 he left them to the Greenwich Hospital Collection - or rather, his widow presented them as an informal bequest, since they are not mentioned in his will. In about 1835 his former protégé, Admiral Benjamin William Page (1765-1845), was incensed to find them hanging in obscure corridors rather than in the Naval Gallery in the Painted Hall. He persuaded the Hospital to sell him all but the present example and gave all six to Hughes's and his own home town, Ipswich, to hang in the town hall. They remain at Ipswich today. Serres was a well-born Frenchman from Gascony who ran away to sea in merchant service rather than follow family wish that he enter the Church. He probably arrived in England as a naval prisoner of war, took up painting and settled there. His early paintings show the influence of Brooking and Monamy's interpretations of Dutch art but he rapidly achieved recognition for his more documentary visual accounts of sea actions of the Seven Years War, 1756-63, becoming established as England's leading marine painter. His work was even more in demand in the 1770s and 1780s, recording the naval history of the War of American Independence. In 1768 Serres was a founder member of the Royal Academy and at the end of his life its librarian. A well respected and sociable man, he was appointed Marine Painter to George III in 1780. This painting is signed and dated 'D Serres 1786', and inscribed bottom left '3rd Action off Negapatam 6th July 1782'.Signed and dated 1786. |
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Identifier InfoField | Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH74 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC0448 |
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Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
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