Captain John Gell, 1785, Oil on canvas, 94 1/2 x 58 1/2 in. (240 x 148.6 cm), Paintings, Gilbert Stuart (American, North Kingston, Rhode Island 1755–1828 Boston, Massachusetts), In 1785 the British naval officer John Gell (1738–1806) had just completed his duty on the seventy-gun Monarca, which he had commanded in a series of battles against the French. For this portrait, Stuart used as a model Sir Joshua Reynolds’s heroic 'Commodore Augustus Keppel'
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Captain John Gell, 1785, Oil, canvas, 94 1/2 x 58 1/2, 240 148.6 cm, Paintings, Gilbert Stuart, American, North Kingston, Rhode Island, 1755–1828, Boston, Massachusetts, British naval, officer, John, Gell, 1738–1806, completed, duty, seventy-gun Monarca, commanded, series, battles, French, portrait, Stuart, model Sir, Joshua, Reynolds, heroic, Commodore Augustus, Keppel'
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