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George Rooke

(Rooke, George, Sir, 1650-1709)

Caption from the museum's website

A three-quarter-length portrait to the right of Admiral Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet. He wears a gold-braided red cloth coat with wide sleeves, grey-brown full-bottomed wig and a white neck-cloth. His right arm rests on the muzzle of a cannon and he holds a telescope in his left hand. Behind him in both the right and left backgrounds, is a depiction of the Battle of Malaga, 1704. Admiral Rooke's flagship, the 'Royal Katharine' with the Union flag at the main, is seen in port-quarter view, engaging the 'Foudroyant', which was the flagship of the Franco-Spanish fleet under the Comte de Toulouse, an illegitimate son of Louis XIV. Though inconclusive, the Battle of Malaga was the only fleet action fought at sea during the War of the Spanish Succession. This portrait is one of a series commissioned for the Royal Collection at the time of Queen Anne and was presented to Greenwich Hospital by George IV in 1824. The Swedish painter travelled to London in 1682, where he became acquainted with Godfrey Kneller. In 1685, he left for Europe and returned to London in 1689 where he remained. During Dahl's absence, Kneller consolidated his supremacy as the fashionable portrait painter, although the prolific Dahl was his closest competitor. Politically, Kneller supported the ascendant Whigs, while Dahl was a Tory. The death of Kneller in 1723 left Dahl the principal London portraitist.

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Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Rooke (1650 – 24 January 1709) was an Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle of Solebay and again at the Battle of Schooneveld during the Third Anglo-Dutch War. As a captain, he conveyed Prince William of Orange to England and took part in the Battle of Bantry Bay during the Williamite War in Ireland. (From Wikipedia)

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Browning, Oscar, 1837-1923

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The Journal of Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet, 1700-1702 (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1897), by George Rooke, ed. by Oscar Browning (multiple formats at archive.org)

4 additional books about George Rooke in the extended shelves:

From Howard to Nelson: twelve sailors (Lawrence and Bullen, ltd., 1899), by John Knox Laughton (page images at HathiTrust)
From Howard to Nelson : twelve sailors (Heinemann, 1907), by John Knox Laughton (page images at HathiTrust)
The life and glorious actions of the Right Honourable Sir George Rook, kt. Sometime admiral of the English fleet, vice-admiral of England, &c. (Printed by R.J. and sold by J. Morphew, 1707) (page images at HathiTrust)
An Account of Sir George Rook's arrival in the chanel with the fleet under his command (London : Printed by Edw. Jones in the Savoy, [1696]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Books by George Rooke:

Rooke, George, Sir, 1650-1709: The Journal of Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet, 1700-1702 (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1897), ed. by Oscar Browning (multiple formats at archive.org)

Additional books by George Rooke in the extended shelves:

Rooke, George, Sir, 1650-1709: The account given by Sir John Ashby, Vice-Admiral, and Reere-Admiral Rooke to the Lords Commissioners of the engagement at sea between the English, Dutch, and French fleets, June the 30th, 1690 with a journal of the fleet since their departure from St. Hellens to their return to the Buoy-in-the-Nore, and other material passages relating to the said engagement. (London : Printed for Randal Taylor ..., 1691), also by John Ashby (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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