How you can use this image
This image can be used for non-commercial research or private study purposes, and other UK exceptions to copyright permitted to users based in the United Kingdom under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Any other type of use will need to be cleared with the rights holder(s).
Review the copyright credit lines that are located underneath the image, as these indicate who manages the copyright (©) within the artwork, and the photographic rights within the image.
The collection that owns the artwork may have more information on their own website about permitted uses and image licensing options.
Review our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.
Notes
Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.
A half-length seated portrait in admiral's uniform, in a bow-backed wooden chair and turned slightly to the left, with the sitter's hands clasped on his knee. A desk behind bears his uniform cap, with a plain cream-coloured wall beyond. Madden came from a naval family, being the son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Edward Madden (1862–1935), Bt, to whose baronetcy (created 1919) he succeeded. He had a distinguished and much decorated naval career beginning in the 1920s, and he retired as Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, in 1965. During the Second World War he spent a long period, including considerable action, as second-in-command of the battleship 'Warspite', the flagship of Admiral Cunningham, and he later made important contributions to NATO.
The artist, John Ward, was born and educated in Hereford, trained at the Royal College of Art and saw war service in the Royal Engineers, 1939–1946. He worked for 'Vogue' magazine, 1948–1952, before becoming a fully independent artist and portrait painter. He was elected Associate of the Royal Academy in 1956 and Academician in 1966 (resigned 1997). He is a former Vice President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (member from 1952) and was appointed CBE in 1985.
Title
Admiral Sir Charles Madden (1906–2001)
Date
c.1977
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 76.4 x W 51.2 cm
Accession number
BHC2417
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
-
Emeritus Professor Sir Arthur Llewellyn Armitage (1916–1984) The University of Manchester -
Self Portrait Seated at an Easel Canterbury Museums and Galleries -
The East Kent School Canterbury Museums and Galleries -
Self Portrait Hereford Museum and Art Gallery -
Sir John Ellis (1916–1998) Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums -
The Reverend Edward Moore, Principal (1864–1913) St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford -
Lord Denning, President (1952–1983) Birkbeck, University of London - 51 more