Admiral Charles Morice Pole, Bt (1757-1830)
Gilbert Stuart (North Kingstown, Rhode Island 1755 - Boston 1828)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1786 (inscribed)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872141
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Admiral Sir Charles Morice Pole, Bt (1757–1830) by Gilbert Stuart (North Kingstown, Rhode Island 1755 - Boston 1828), inscribed bottom right: Stuart pinxit 1786. A half-length portrait in an oval frame of a descendant of Sir John Pole of Shute, as a young man, on the right, looking to the left, wearing naval uniform with an evening sky background.
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: in black, bottom left: Adl. Sr. Chs. Pole. Recto: bottom right : Stuart pinxit 1786
Makers and roles
Gilbert Stuart (North Kingstown, Rhode Island 1755 - Boston 1828), artist
References
Evans 1971 Dorinda Evans, The Burlington Magazine, CXIII, August 1971, pp. 534-541 Barratt and Miles 2004 Carrie Rebora Barratt & Ellen G. Miles, Gilbert Stuart, New Haven & London 2004, p. 29