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English School, The Orange Accompanied by Little Victory
Photo courtesy of Dave Penman (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- Doddington Hall
- Title(s)
- The Orange Accompanied by Little Victory
- Date
- after 1666–7
- Location
- Stairs Leading To Second Floor And Landing
- Medium and support
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 101 cm, Overall width: 110 cm
- Artist
- English School
- Catalogue Number
- DN70
Footnotes
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Oliver Millar Notebook VIII, 191, Paul Mellon Centre Collection.
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Description
The picture was commissioned presumably by Captain Christopher Gunman who commanded the Fifth Rate, Orange (formerly a captured Dutch vessel, Oranjeboom), from 17 March 1666 to 19 January 1667. Oliver Millar, who inspected the picture at Doddington in 1952, noted: ‘a weak picture of a yacht and other vessels, c.1670, very coarse, but quite [?well] in colour. Perhaps signed lor. to l of a piece of driftwood’.1