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Painting by Thomas Gainsborough

Portrait of Admiral Rodney

Artist	Thomas Gainsborough
Year	1783
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions	71 cm × 40 cm (28 in × 16 in)
Location	Private Collection

Portrait of Admiral Rodney or Admiral Rodney at the Battle of the Saintes is a 1783 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Gainsborough featuring the British admiral George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney. It depicts his April 1782 victory at the Battle of the Saintes in the Caribbean Sea during the American War of Independence. Rodney led the Royal Navy to a decisive victory over the French fleet commanded by the Comte de Grasse by "breaking the line". Rodney is shown on the deck of the de Grasse's captured flagship Ville de Paris with the ship's Fleur-de-lis ensign behind him, as smoke from the battle swirls in the background. In 1788 the artist's nephew Gainsborough Dupont produced a mezzotint based on the picture.

Rodney was also notably painted by Gainsborough's contemporary and rival, Joshua Reynolds, who exhibited his painting at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition in 1789. Reynolds similarly included action from the Battle of the Saintes in the background. Commissioned by the Prince of Wales, it remains today in the Royal Collection. A later copy is in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

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Trew, Peter. Rodney and The Breaking of the Line. Leo Cooper, 2005.
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) Portrait of Lord Cornwallis (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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