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Full-length portrait of Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Admiral of the Fleet, leaning to the right and facing slightly to the left, wearing three-quarter length armour and a full-bottomed wig. He is leaning on a cannon which is probably draped with a blue flag, and in his left hand he holds a combined telescope and baton. In the right background, his flagship is shown in action, blue at the main. In the War of the Spanish Succession, he brought home the silver captured by Sir George Rooke at Vigo in 1702. Returning home from an attack on Toulon in 1707, in his flagship 'Association', he was lost with 800 or 900 men when his ship was wrecked off the Isles of Scilly. The Swedish painter travelled to London in 1682 where he became acquainted with Godfrey Kneller.
Title
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell (1650–1707)
Date
1702
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 238.7 x W 147.3 cm
Accession number
BHC3026
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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