Portrait of the Earl of Sandwich

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The Earl of Sandwich

Artist	Thomas Gainsborough
Year	1783
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait
Location	National Maritime Museum, London

Portrait of the Earl of Sandwich is a 1783 painting by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough depicting a full-length view of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.^[1]^[2] Sandwich had recently left the post of First Lord of the Admiralty which he had held three times since 1748, having overseen British naval operations during the American Revolutionary War. Sandwich is shown against the backdrop of Greenwich Hospital and holds a plan of James Stuart's design for the infirmary completed in the 1760s during Sandwich's earlier term as First Lord.^[3]

It was commissioned from Gainsborough by the current governor of the hospital Admiral Hugh Palliser as a gesture of thanks to Sandwich for his political patronage. It is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum.^[3] A 1788 engraving by John Keyse Sherwin is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.^[4]

References

^ Whitley p. 194
^ Bonehill pp. 22–23
^ ^a ^b "John Montagu, 1718-92, 4th Earl of Sandwich, 1st Lord of the Admiralty". Royal Museums Greenwich. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
^ "John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 8 December 2024.

Bonehill, John. (ed.) Art for the Nation: The Oil Paintings Collections of the National Maritime Museum. National Maritime Museum, 2006.
Whitley, William Thomas. Thomas Gainsborough. Smith, Elder & Company, 1915.

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Paintings	Cornard Wood, near Sudbury, Suffolk (1748) Wooded Landscape with a Herdsman Seated (1748) Mr and Mrs Andrews (c. 1750) The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly (1757) Gypsy works (including The Gipsies et al.) The Harvest Wagon (c. 1767) The Blue Boy (c. 1770) Maria, Lady Eardley (c. 1770) Portrait of David Garrick (1770) Woman in Blue (c. 1770–1780) Portrait of Mrs Mary Graham (1777) Portrait of Anne, Countess of Chesterfield (1777–78) Mrs Elizabeth Moody with her sons Samuel and Thomas (c. 1780) Portrait of Admiral Rodney (1783) Portrait of the Earl of Sandwich (1783) Mr and Mrs William Hallett (1785) The Market Cart (1786) Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1785–1787) Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1787) Cottage Door works (including The Woodcutter's Return et al.)
Museums	Gainsborough's House
Related	Humphrey Gainsborough (brother) Kitty (1945 film) Gainsborough (crater)

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