- Title:
- Captain William Locker
- Former Title(s):
- Portrait of William Locker, Captain of H.M.S. The Queen [1963, Christie’s sales catalog]
- Date:
- 1769
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 14 1/2 x 12 inches (36.8 x 30.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on the back of lining canvas in black paint: "W[m] Locker Esq | Cap[t] of His Majestys | Ship the Queen | done on Board Her | 1769 By D[k] Serres | 1769"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.565
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.565FR
- Subject Terms:
- cabin (vehicle space) | captain (military officer) | cravat | engageantes | frigate | hat | man | marine art | navy | officer (military officer) | portrait | ruffle | sailing | sea | ship | telescope | tricorne | uniform | water | window
- Associated People:
- Locker, William (1731–1800), Royal Navy Officer
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1046
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 200-201, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
English pictures prints and drawings, c. 1650 - c. 1950 , Christie's, London, November 22nd, 1963, p. 43, lot no. 174, Sales Catalogues (YCBA) [YCBA]
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 248, cat. 109, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 40 (v.1), no. 145, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 43 (v.1), no. 161, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]