The son of a distinguished officer in the British Royal Navy, Fleetwood Pellew (1789–1861) also made his career at sea from the tender age of nine. Ingres drew this portrait of Fleetwood as well as one of his wife Harriet (Private Collection) while the two were likely on honeymoon in Rome. They were among the droves of British tourists who returned to Italy following Napoleon’s defeat, more than twenty of whom sat for Ingres, who made his living on such commissions. The young naval officer appears somewhat arrogant in Ingres’s characterization, a trait that may have been his downfall, as the crews of his ships twice mutinied, which, astonishingly, did not seem to hamper his eventual ascension to the rank of admiral.
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Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 2004
Accession Number:2004.475.1
Signature: Signed and dated in graphite at lower right: Ingres. Del à / rome 1817.
The sitter, Admiral Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew (British), until his death, 1861; ?by descent to the daughter of the sitter, Lady Orford Harriet Bettina Frances Pellew (British), Florence, until her death, 1886; ?by descent to her daughters Dorothy Elizabeth Mary Walpole, Duchess del Balzo (British), d.1921,; and Maude Mary Walpole, Countess Griefeo e Gravana (British), d. 1874,; Galerie André Weil, Paris; sold to Georges Renard (French), 1935; Galerie Wertheimer, Paris, 1948; Galerie Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, 1949; Galerie Paul Rosenberg, New York, until 1954; sold to Mrs. Mark C. Steinberg, St. Louis, until her death, 1974; by descent to Etta E. Steinbergand; Florence C. Weil; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Weil (American), St. Louis; Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., New York, until 1989; sold to Mrs. Charles Wrightsman (American), New York, in 1989; her gift in 2004 to The Metropolitan Museum of Art (American)in honor of Philippe de Montebello
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