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This sensitive sketch is one of Burnet’s studies of old seamen for a painting of 1837 called ‘Greenwich Pensioners and Naval Heroes’, which was exhibited at the British Institution in 1837. It shows pensioners celebrating the anniversary of Trafalgar in Greenwich Park and was painted speculatively to complement David Wilkie’s ‘Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch’, owned by the Duke of Wellington, who also bought Burnet’s picture. Both are hanging in Apsley House, and the National Maritime Museum holds a print of the completed Burnet picture. This is one of nine of such studies for the painting, all of Greenwich pensioners wearing typical dress. A paper label on this painting's stretcher, in a nineteenth-century hand, identifies the artist, the date of painting as 1832, the sitter as 'Nelson's personal attendant, Victory', and gives his age as 65.
Also in the Collection is a woodcut silhouette of Allen, published on his death (PAD3457) and a drawing by Daniel Orme (PAG6838).
Title
Thomas Allen (1771–1838), a Greenwich Pensioner
Date
1832
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 30.5 x W 23 cm
Accession number
BHC2510
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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