Honouring Superb
Completed 14th October 2021
HMS Superb was built in 1798 and was the fastest "Ship of the Line" at the time, after 7 years and overdue for a re-fit she sailed to Portsmouth with HMS Victory and Lord Nelson
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20" X 16" mounted £400
23" X 19" Framed £440
Completed 14th October 2021
HMS Superb was built in 1798 and was the fastest "Ship of the Line" at the time, after 7 years and overdue for a re-fit she sailed to Portsmouth with HMS Victory and Lord Nelson
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20" X 16" mounted £400
23" X 19" Framed £440
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” Mounted and Framed £460
Also available at my gallery Artmarine.co.uk with more framing options
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” Mounted and Framed £420
Also available at my gallery Artmarine.co.uk with further framing options
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” Mounted and Framed £420
Also available at my gallery Artmarine.co.uk with further framing options
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
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
Fast Falls the Eventide
completed Thursday 20th August 2020
Foudroyant in Torbay 1790's, Berry head in the background - this would be before Henry Francis Lyte wrote "Abide with Me" in 1847 at the Berry Head Vicarage, Brixham, built originally in 1803 as a support hospital for the forts above, the bells of All Saint's Church in Brixham play the tune every evening at 8pm in his memory, the tune is called Eventide by William Henry Monk written 1861.
20" X 18" mounted £410
23" X 21" mounted and framed in dark wood with gold inner highlight £450
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Also available through my online gallery here https://www.artmarine.co.uk/ShopSection/johnchristian/279/