John R Christian - Maritime Art
John R Christian
Maritime Artist
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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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False Flag
completed 2nd March 2023

Inspired by accounts of an action off Barcelona on May 6th, 1801

HMS Speedy and Spanish xebec frigate El Gamo 
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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 in the 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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