Lord Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet
1922
Medium
drypoint in black
Dimensions
plate: 30.48 × 25.4 cm (12 × 10 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Walter Tittle
Accession Number
1975.10.2
Art Historical Context
Behold the commanding portrait *Lord Beatty, Admiral of Fleet* (1922), a masterful drypoint etching by American artist Walter Tittle.uring David Beatty, the celebrated British naval commander who led the Grand Fleet during War I's pivotal Battle of Jutland later served as First Sea Lord, work immortalizes a hero of the era just after the war's end. Tittle, renowned for his incisive portraits of statesmen and luminaries, renders Beatty with a piercing gaze and resolute posture, evoking the dignity and resolve of Britain's naval legacy. Crafted in drypoint—a direct intaglio technique where the ...
About the Artist
Walter Tittle
Walter Tittle was an American illustrator, portraitist, and printmaker who built a distinguished career in the early decades of the twentieth century, working across the overlapping worlds of magazine illustration, literary portraiture, and fine art printmaking. Born in Springfield, Ohio, he studied at the Art Students League of New York, an institution that provided rigorous training in drawing a...