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John R Christian
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Georgian Navy

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21 guns for George
waterclolour
June 1782 , HMS Fortitude lay in Torbay.
Captains log records:
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9" X 14" opening
14" X 18" mounted £285
​framed £350



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HMS Victory with HMS Euryalus in the channel.
 completed April 2nd 2025

September 15th 1805, Nelson on board HMS Victory departed from Portsmouth with the frigate HMS Euryalus in company heading for Trafalgar. They headed for the Scilly Isles hugging the Southern English coast, picking up with HMS Ajax and HMS Thunderer off Plymouth on the way. At the Scillies Lord Nelson sent Euryalus on ahead to relay the news of his arrival to the fleet and instruct them to not display any greeting to alert the Franco/ Spanish fleet anchored in Cadiz of his arrival.
Opening 15 1/2” X 11 1/2” 
Mounted 22" X 18". £375
Framed  25" X  21"  with art glass £450

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Anson's Squadron 1741
completed 19th February 2025
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While Great Britain was fighting the War of Jenkins' Ear with Spain in 1740, Commodore George Anson led a squadron of eight ships on a mission to disrupt or capture the Pacific Ocean possessions of the Spanish Empire.
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Watercolour
​15 1/2” X 11 1/2” opening
20” X 16” mounted £350
23" X 19" Stock ​frame with Artglass £420
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Action between USS Constitution and HMS Guerierre August 1812
completed January 20th 2025

During the US / British war of 1812, HMS Guerierre, under Captain James Dacres had been sent ...
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Watercolour

​15 1/2” X 11 1/2” opening
20” X 16” mounted £350
23" X 19" Stock ​frame with Artglass £420

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The Red Cliffs of Goodrington 1782
Watercolour completed November 5th 2024


Disease in the Georgian fleet was one of the greatest threats to life, 
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Mounted 22" X 18". £400
Framed  25" X  21"  with art glass £470

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Minerva Lowering the Jolly-boat
completed December 6 2023

At the end of January 1797, Nelson, his Commodore's broad pennant on board HMS Minerva, left Elba, 

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15 1/2” X 11 1/2” opening
20” X 16” mounted £320
23" X 19" Stock ​frame with Artglass £390

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HMS Foudroyant off Smeaton's Eddistone Lighthouse 
completed 17th July 2023

HMS Foudroyant was an 80 gun third rate of the Royal Navy, launched on March 31 1798 at Plymouth.
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15 1/2” X 11 1/2” opening
20” X 16” mounted £380
23" X 19" Stock ​frame with Artglass £450

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HMS Thetis
completed January 14 2023
 

HMS Thetis was a 38 gun, fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. 
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15 1/2” X 11 1/2” opening
20” X 16” mounted £380
23" X 19" Stock frame with 
Artglass £450

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'Arethusa at Carrick Roads'
completed September 20th 2022

HMS Arethusa was a 38-gun Minerva-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy built at Bristol in 1781. 

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15 1/2” X 11 1/2” opening
20” X 16” mounted  £380
23" X 19" Stock frame with
Artglass available £450
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"Juno on a Mission"
completed 24th August 2022
HMS Juno was a 32-gun Richmond-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and served throughout the American Revolutionary War until scuttled in 1778 to avoid
 capture.
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15 1/2” X 11 1/2” opening
20” X 16” mounted  £380
23" X 19" ​Stock frame with Artglass £450




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Passing Under Pellegrino
completed February 12th 2022


HMS Foudroyant and HMS Lion arriving at Palermo
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​20" X 18" mounted £420
23" X 21" Framed £490​​

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Closing In
completed 9 September 2021

Inspired by the action of 31 March 1800 off Malta, 
​HMS Penelope in action with Guillaume Tell
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Image opening 15 ½” X 11 ½”
20” X 16” Mounted £420
23” X 19” Stock Framed £490




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Standing off the Oregon Coast
completed 18th January 2021

HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery on Captain James Cook's 3rd journey
Water colour 20"X16"

After leaving the Hawaiian Islands Captain Cook arrived off the North American coast on March 1st 1778, with the wind from NW the painting is inspired by accounts from Captain Cook's journal describing .."seeing nothing like a harbour and the wind and weather being unsettled l tacked and stretched off SW...each extreme of land seemed to shoot out into a point"

Image opening 15 ½” X 11 ½”
20” X 16” Mounted £380
23” X 19” Stock framedramed £450


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Off Goodrington Naval Hospital 1782
completed 14th Decmeber 2020
During the French wars Dr Thomas Trotter, physician to the Fleet, set up a naval hospital in a large house near the beach at Goodrington. This prevented the over crowding of the naval hospital at Dartmouth, there was a graveyard that washed away next to the hospital and now there is a memorial stone.
From the records of Thomas Trotter Physician to the Fleet, published in 1797; Fortitude was mentioned among many others as putting in to Torbay to clear the ships in order to smoke with sulphur and scrub with vinegar..
image opening 19" X 13"
24" X18" mounted £450
Framed to be arranged upon application because of size and possible shipping demands

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