File:Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, 1607-76, Lieutenant-Admiral-General of the United Provinces RMG BHC2996.tiff
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Hendrick Berckman: Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, 1607-76, Lieutenant-Admiral-General of the United Provinces
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Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, 1607-76, Lieutenant-Admiral-General of the United Provinces  |
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, 1607-76, Lieutenant-Admiral-General of the United Provinces A three-quarter-length portrait to right in a black velvet coat with silver buttons. Over his coat he wears a wide, plain collar, a dark cloth baldric and a gold chain with a medallion of the Danish king Frederick III. He holds an ivory-topped cane in his left hand and in the right background, through an archway, is his flagship and other ships of the Dutch fleet. His arms are included in the top left corner. De Ruyter was presented with the gold chain by Frederick III in 1659 to reward his actions conquering the island of Funen. In 1660, he was ennobled into the Danish nobility, and awarded the arms shown. These include the Danish flag, a cannon and canon balls representing the battle that he fought for Denmark and his ship. The armed knight above the crown symbolises de Ruyter's Danish nobility. Overall, de Ruyter has been portrayed with the attributes of power and military success. It was presented to the Naval Gallery of Greenwich Hospital in 1870 by M. J. de Jonge, Baron van Ellemut (or possibly Ellemeet). It is now clear that it was originally one of a pair, the other being of the sitter's third wife Anna van Gelder (see ZBA4398), both presumably commissioned by de Ruyter. Later split, they were only reunited when the Museum acquired the other from the Netherlands in 2006. |
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| Date | 1664 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Frame: 1356 mm x 1132 mm;Overall: 25 kg;Painting: 1067 x 763 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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BHC2996 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14469 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH139 Loan File Number: Y2000.023 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC2996 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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