Attributed to Michael Dahl (c.1659-1743)

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細節

Attributed to Michael Dahl (c.1659-1743)

Portrait of Admiral Sir George Rooke (1650-1709), half-length, in a brown coat, a baton in his left hand, with his right resting on a cannon, with a naval battle beyond

inscribed, on the reverse 'Sir Hugh Cholmley'

unframed

47 x 38in. (119.5 x 96.5cm.)

來源

possibly Sir Hugh Cholmley.

出版

A Concise Catalogue of Oil Paintings in the National Maritime Museum, Woodbridge, 1988, no. BHC2974(d).

拍品專文

The sitter was the second son of Sir William Rooke (d.1691). His naval career is said to have begun as a volunteer in the second Dutch War. In the battle of Solebay (1672) he was lieutenant of the 'London', flagship of Sir Edward Spragge. By 1691 he had been promoted to the position of Rear-Admiral of the Blue Squadron and he distinguished himself in the Battle of Barfleur in the same year. The following years were less successful but he continued to rise in the naval hierachy, becoming Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet in 1703. His reputation was, however, fully restored with the capture of Gibraltar in that year.