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Summary
anonymous: Sir Michael Livesey, 1614-1665?
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| Artist | _School_-_Sir_Michael_Livesey_(1614%E2%80%931665%5E)_-_BHC2843_-_Royal_Museums_Greenwich.jpg) | |||||||||||
| Author |
Unknown author |
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| Title |
Sir Michael Livesey, 1614-1665?  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||
| Genre |
portrait |
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| Description |
English: Sir Michael Livesey, 1614-1665? Livesey fought as a soldier on the side of Parliament throughout the Civil War. In 1648 he was one of the ‘regicides’ who tried King Charles I and signed his death warrant. He became a Commissioner of the Admiralty about three months before Charles II’s Restoration in 1660 but soon afterwards fled abroad. He is shown seated wearing three-quarter armour. On the table on the right are his close helmet, a gauntlet, a goblet and a very unusual pair of flintlock pistols, the butts in the form of a crocodile’s head whose open jaws enclose a seated lion. The painting, formerly in the collection of Lord St John of Bletsoe, was acquired without a frame in 1954 and only had one made when it was first displayed in the Museum's 'Sea of Faces' exhibition in 2001. |
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| Date | circa 1645-60 | |||||||||||
| Medium |
oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Painting: 1707 x 968 mm; Frame: 1908 x 1158 x 75 mm | |||||||||||
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| Accession number |
BHC2843 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14316 | |||||||||||
| 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 | Acquisition Number: OP1954-20 id number: BHC2843 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||
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| current | 23:58, 16 September 2017 |  | 2,127 × 3,800 (23.12 MB) | Fæ | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings (1645), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14316 #814 |
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