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Admiral Robert Deans
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
91.5 × 71.2 cm
Accession Number
548-2
Department
International Painting
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1911
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Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Biographical Military and Warfare Portraits
Subjects (specific)
admirals half figures men (male humans) military officers military uniforms navies
Provenance
Collection of the sitter, Admiral Robert Deans (1740–1815), East Lothian, Scotland, until 1815; by descent to his son, Rear Admiral Robert Deans (1792–1867), 1815–67; then to his widow, Cheltenham, England, from 1867 until her death; thence by descent to the sitter's grand-daughter, Mrs Blanche Morris, until 1911; with Shepherd Gallery (dealer), London (with companion portrait of sitter's wife); from where purchased, on the advice of Frank Gibson and Charles Ricketts, for the Felton Bequest, 1911.