Admiral Edward Russell, 1652-1727, 1st Earl of Orford<br><p>A three-quarter-length portrait to the left in a brown coat edged with gold lace and fastened with gold clasps, with a blue cloak swathed round him. He wears a light brown full-bottomed wig and his left hand points to a letter inscribed 'To the Right Honble. The Earle of Orford at Chipingham', which sits on a table covered with red cloth. A curtain hangs on the left and a column stands in the right background. 
</p><p>Russell commanded the Anglo-Dutch fleet at the victorious Battle of Barfleur, 1692, and was Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, 1694. On the orders of William III, he was the first British commander to over-winter at Cadiz (rather than sailing his squadron home in the autumn) and so inaugurated a policy that led to the acquisition of a Mediterranean base at Gibraltar in 1704 and the maintenance of a year-round British Mediterranean presence.<br></p>
Admiral Edward Russell, 1653-1727, 1st Earl of Orford
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Thomas_Gibson_(artist)" class="extiw" title="w:en:Thomas Gibson (artist)"><span title="British painter (1680-1751)">Thomas Gibson</span></a>
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circa 1715 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1715-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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