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James Thornhill: John Worley, 1624-1721  wikidata:Q50902824 reasonator:Q50902824
Artist
James Thornhill  (–1734)  wikidata:Q1681192
 
James Thornhill
Description British painter, politician and court painter
Date of birth/death 25 July 1675 / 25 July 1676 Edit this at Wikidata 4 May 1734 / 13 May 1734 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Melcombe Regis Edit this at Wikidata Thornhill Park near Stalbridge, Category:Dorset
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London, Greenwich, various English country estates
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creator QS:P170,Q1681192
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John Worley, 1624-1721 Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"John Worley, 1624-1721 Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"John Worley, 1624-1721 Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: A head-and-shoulders portrait to right, in a natural-coloured coat and with a long white beard. This portrait was originally on a narrow oblong canvas but it is now in an oval with small additions on each side.

Worley was one of the first pensioners to be admitted to Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich when its King Charles Court began receiving them in 1705. He had been at sea for seventy years, apparently once in the coal trade but later in the Navy, and was twice mentioned in the early records of the Hospital as being punished for drunkenness and disruptive behaviour. The painting shows him mid-80s (he died at 96), posed as the model for the figure of 'Winter' in the ceiling of the Painted Hall at Greenwich, which Thornhill commenced painting in 1708. See PAH3343 for a related ink and wash study, on which the inscription is the basis of the traditonal 1720 date for both that and this painting. If, however, they are preliminary studies for the main Painted Hall ceiling - as seems most likely - they are probably earlier, about 1708-10, since Thornhill finished that in 1712.

The artist regarded the depiction of Time as an important element in his scheme and he included the seasons, months and days of the week, positioning 'Winter', or 'Hyems' in the Zodiac framework of the ceiling. Thornhill's own explanation of the painting states that 'In the circumference of the oval are twelve signs of the Zodiac with their proper attitudes over which preside the four seasons of the year. Spring or Flora, over Aries, Taurus, Gemini; Summer or Ceres, over Cancer, Leo, Virgo; Autumn or Bacchus over Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius; Hyems or Winter over Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces'.

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). Using the apotheosis of William and Mary as the central theme, his ceiling at Greenwich is regarded as one of his greatest achievements and is an important example of 18th-century English history painting, the most elevated and morally instructive genre of painting. This oil study of Worley was presented to Greenwich Hospital by Thornhill himself and is one of its earliest pictures.

John Worley, 1624-1721
Date 1708 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 73.5 cm (28.9 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 61 cm (24 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+73.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+61U174728
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
Current location
Royal Museums Greenwich
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BHC3102 (Royal Museums Greenwich) Edit this at Wikidata
Notes Signed. Description: shape: oval. This object was sighted as being on display during the Collections Inventory Project (2001-2005). It will need to be checked for object numbers and its condition activity updated
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File number: 4G10.031
Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH106
Loan File Number: Y2000.023
id number: BHC3102
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