Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner

Physical descriptionback to top

Blue-grey eyes, grey hair, in admiral’s full dress uniform, wearing a campaign medal (which is illegible, but is presumably for the action of 1 June 1794¹).

¹ Commemorated in the great canvas by P. J. De Loutherbourg in the National Maritime Museum (BHC 0470).

Provenanceback to top

Purchased from Leggatt 1925.

Exhibitionsback to top

RA 1799 (276).

Reproductionsback to top

B. Reading 1799 (as Sir Alan Gardner Bt, Admiral of the Blue, & M.P. for the city of Westminster.); anon. (small oval as Admiral Gardiner).


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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