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Joseph Highmore
Samuel Booth, Messenger of the Order of the Bath (1732)
oil on canvas
127.0 × 101.5 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1960
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Samuel Booth, Messenger of the Order of the Bath
(1732)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
127.0 × 101.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1960
Gallery location
18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Samuel Booth (d. 1737) is shown in the stately robes of what was at the time a comparatively new office. The Order of the Bath had been formally founded by King George I in 1725. It comprised the king, a
Prince of the Blood, a Great Master and thirty-five knights. Booth’s robe is adorned with three gold crowns; these, together with the order’s motto Tria Juncta In Uno (‘three joined as one’), stood for the union of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Artwork Details
Accession Number
398-5
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
knights (landholders) medals men (male humans) order insignias robes (main garments) single-sitter portraits three-quarter-length figures wigs
Movements
Rococo