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A full-length portrait of Admiral George Byng, Viscount Torrington, facing to the right and towards the viewer. He is wearing viscount's robes and a shoulder-length grey full-bottomed wig. He also wears the chain of the Order of the Bath. His right hand rests on a column to the left and in the background to the right is a scene from the Battle of Cape Passaro, in which he won a notable victory over a Spanish fleet off that south-eastern point of Sicily in 1718. Since the sitter died in 1733, this portrait was either started in the year he died, or, more likely, was painted posthumously.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

Admiral of the Fleet George Byng (1663–1733), 1st Viscount Torrington

Date

1734

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 240 x W 146 cm

Accession number

BHC2588

Acquisition method

National Maritime Museum (Greenwich Hospital Collection)

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

J. Davidson Pinxt.1734

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National Maritime Museum

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Artist or maker

Jeremiah Davison

c.1695–1745

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