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A full-length seated portrait of the marine and landscape painter John Everett, cross-legged and wearing a black overcoat and trousers, a silk hat and grey gloves. His face is bearded and a silver-topped cane rests against his legs. Orpen produced a preliminary sketch of Everett for this portrait which shows him as clean-shaven and seated with the gloves, cane and top-hat that feature in this finished canvas. Everett sat for his portrait against a background of his own watercolours and drawings of ships, and with the telescope and roll of maps that can be seen in the corner of the composition. Although the portrait is both direct and simple, it also emulates the swagger and insouciance of the sitter, who was over six feet tall. Everett was a student at the Slade School of Art with Orpen.
Orpen exhibited the portrait (as of 'Herbert Everett') at the winter exhibition of the New English Art Club in 1900. It was bequeathed by the sitter to National Portrait Gallery but was transferred to the National Maritime Musuem in 1950. Orpen was a fashionable portrait painter who painted in a vigorous style, often using strong chiaroscuro backgrounds, and this portrait shows the influence of both James Abbott McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent . He later produced memorable work as a war artist.
Title
Herbert Barnard John Everett (1877–1949)
Date
c.1900
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 96.5 x W 91.5 cm
Accession number
BHC2684
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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