Admiral of the Fleet George Byng, 1663-1733, 1st Viscount Torrington<br><p>A full-length portrait of Admiral George Byng, Viscount Torrington, facing to the right and towards the viewer. He is wearing viscount's robes and a shoulder-length grey full-bottomed wig. He also wears the chain of the Order of the Bath. His right hand rests on a column to the left and in the background to the right is a scene from the Battle of Cape Passaro, in which he won a notable victory over a Spanish fleet off that south-eastern point of Sicily in 1718. Since the sitter died in 1733, this portrait was either started in the year he died, or, more likely, was painted posthumously.<br></p>
Admiral of the Fleet George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, 1663-1733
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Jeremiah_Davison" class="extiw" title="w:en:Jeremiah Davison"><span title="British artist">Jeremiah Davison</span></a>
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1734<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1734-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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