(After Kneller) John Benbow (1653-1702) c. 1711-14
Oil on canvas | 125.1 x 100.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 404453
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Bockman was a portrait painter and copyist who had arrived in England by 1711. This is one of nine copies of some of the 15 portraits of Admirals, painted in 1701-12 for Queen Anne by Kneller and Dahl. In 1824 George IV donated the originals to Greenwich Hospital; they are now in the National Maritime Museum. These copies were probably executed in 1711-4, immediately after the originals, when the fame of the sitters was still fresh and Queen Anne still on the throne. They are first recorded in the Royal Collection in 1818, which suggests that they were not originally a royal commission. They may have been acquired by George IV (sometime before 1818) as a prelude to giving away the originals.
The painting appears in Pyne's illustrated 'Royal Residenes' of 1819, hanging in The Queen's Drawing Room at Kensington Palace (RCIN 922152).Provenance
Recorded in the Queen's Drawing Room (also called 'Admiral's Gallery') at Kensington Palace in 1818 (no 120); in the King's Guard Chamber at Hampton Court in 1835
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
125.1 x 100.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
144.2 x 120.8 x 5.8 cm (frame, external)
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Vice-Admiral John Benbow (1653-1702)