1title: Royal Navy Bermuda Sloop2.
artist: John Lynn
date: 1834
medium: Technique oil canvas
dimensions: size cm 30.2 45.5
current location: Atlantic Gallery institution:National Maritime Museum
description:
A Bermuda sloop of the royal navy">royal navy, entering port in the West Indies. Beginning in the 1790s, the navy procured large numbers of these Bermudian vessels, some ordered directly from builders in Bermuda, with others bought up from commercial trade. The most noteworthy example was HMS Pickle, which brought home news of British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar. The Bermudian ships, which might have from one to three masts, were employed at first to counter the menace of French privateers in western waters, and later became the standard advice vessels of the fleet - communications carriers, and fast transports of vital materials or persons. They were also used for reconnaissance, chasing slave smugglers, and other uses. The vessel shown may be the earliest recorded example of the modern, triangular Bermuda rig on a multiple-masted vessel, though the rig had been used in Bermuda for some time before that.license:Public domain
2title: Richard Edwards Royal Navy Admiral by Nathaniel Dance 1780
artist: Nathaniel Dance-Holland
date: 1780
medium: Oil on canvas
dimensions: size cm 127 101.6
current location: Institution:NMM
source: Courtesy of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London: link
credit: Courtesy of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London: link
description:
Caption from the museum's website A three-quarter-length portrait of Richard Edwards, Admiral of the Blue. He faces left and wears a flag officer's full-dress uniform 1767-83, with his hat and cane in his right hand. The background shows the coast of Newfoundland, where he fulfilled the seasonal appointment of Governor and Commander-in-Chief, 1778-81. He became Commander-in-Chief at the Nore in 1788. The painting is signed, dated and inscribed: 'N. Dance, pt, 1780 Rear-Admiral Richard Edwards, Esq.' The artist worked with Pompeo Batoni in Rome and on his return to London in 1765 achieved success as a portrait and history painter. In 1768, he joined a group of artists who successfully petitioned George III to establish the royal Academy in that year. The painting has been signed by the artist and dated 1780.
license:Public domain
3title: Capture de Chandernagor en 1757 par la Royal Navy
artist: Dominic Serres
date: 1771
dimensions: Frame: 1381 mm x 2081 mm x 85 mm;Overall: 60.2 kg;Painting: 1143 mm x 1828 mm
current location: Institution:royal Museums Greenwich
source: link
credit: link
license:Public domain
4title: Samuel Atkins A squadron of the royal navy running down
artist:
Samuel Atkins (c.1760-1810)date: Unknown date
medium: Technique Pencil , Technique Pen , Technique Ink and Technique watercolor paper
dimensions: Size cm 34.6 48.3
source: Christie's online|ID=5440579
credit: Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5440579
license:Public domain
5title: Two small Royal Navy frigates (Bray album) RMG PT2030
artist:
Gabriel Braydate: April 1775
dimensions: Sheet: 113 x 177 mm; Mount: 317 x 481 mm
source: link
credit: link
description: Two small royal navy frigates [Bray album]
No. 55 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049)
Dated and signed 'April 75 AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray). The ships mount about 11 guns a side, suggesting they are small firgates of about 26-28 guns. The ensigns of both lack the blue and Scottish saltire element in the upper quadrant, which may just be an unfinished detail. A naval lugger (possibly a launch or longboat) is in the foreground. Since Bray has signed the drawing with his usual 'ad vivum' abbreviation, it may be a scene he observed off Africa during the 'Pallas' voyage, or perhaps one closer to home just finished at sea later: for he clearly did not do everything strictly from life, as shown by his sketching subject in PAJ2025. The ship on the left flies the red ensign often signifying one on independent commission, while the white one suggests the frigate on the right is from a command under a flag officer of the white squadron. This vessel also shows a rare example of the use of a long square driver (sail) hoisted in a following wind to the peak of the lateen mizzen yard, which normally carries a fore-and aft sail. Neither ship appears large enough to be the 'Pallas'.
This is one of 73 drawings by Bray (plus one signed 'NF 1782') preserved in a 19th-century album that was purchased for the Museum by the Macpherson Fund of the Society for Nautical Research in April 1991. They have now been separately remounted. Bray (1750-1823), was second lieutenant of the 44-gun ‘Pallas’ under Captain the Hon. William Cornwallis (1744-1819) – later a well-known admiral - on two voyages (1774-77) to report on British interests in West Africa, including the slave trade. The dated drawings refer only to the first of these, from December 1774 to September 1775, though a few may be from the second. Others comprise country views, some of Deal, Kent (where Bray may have come from), and others of social-history interest.
Two small royal navy frigateslicense:Public domain
6title: Captain Thomas Baillie Late Lieut. Governor of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich - RMG B0685 12
artist:
James Watson; Nathaniel Hone, the Elderdate: 15 December 1779
dimensions: Sheet: 346 x 240 mm; Mount: 632 mm x 480 mm
source: link
credit: link
description: Captain Thomas Baillie Late Lieut. Governor of the royal Hospital at Greenwich...
The full inscription reads: 'Captain Thomas Baillie. Late Lieut Governor of the royal Hospital at Greenwich who was turned out of his Office by John Earl of Sandwich, for asserting the Rights of British Seamen, Widows & Children. 'Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our Houses to Aliens'. Jeremiah Lamentns.' This portrait, derived from an oil in the Museum (BHC2523), commemorates Baillie's long campaign against financial and patronage abuses in Greenwich Hospital, many in the matter of appointments by Lord Sandwich when First Lord of the Admiralty. Baillie, as first a captain in the Hospital (from 1761), and then Lieutenant-Governor from 1774 wrote a damning limited circulation report (seen under his hand) which in August that year resulted not only in his dismissal but a charge of libel against him by some of the Hospital Directors, including Sandwich. By chance he met the young lawyer and ex-midshipman, Thomas Erskine - later Lord Chancellor - who mounted a brilliant defence in 1778, which cleared Baillie of the libel. He remained unemployed, however, until after the fall of Lord North's government (including Sandwich) in 1782, when he was appointed to another government post.
The date of the print shows it follows his successful acquittal in the court case. Baillie's name and rank as Lieutenant-Governor are on one of the pieces of paper on the left. The word 'CASE' which is inserted above 'Greenwich Hospital' on the report under his hand only appears in the print, not the original oil. PAD4578 is another copy.
'Captain Thomas Baillie Late Lieut. Governor of the royal Hospital at Greenwich...'license:Public domain
7title: Royal Navy commissioning pennant RMG RP 26 19
artist:
Unknown authordate: after 1864
dimensions: flag: 76.2 x 1117.6 mm
source: link
credit: link
description: royal navy commissioning pennant
royal navy commissioning pennant. Machine-sewn, white, red cross at the hoist. Rope attached.license:Public domain
8title: Navy agent refusing to pay prize money (caricature) RMG PW5928
artist: Thomas Rowlandson
date: 1827
dimensions: Mount: 167 mm x 135 mm
source: link
credit: link
description: navy agent refusing to pay prize money (caricature)
Medium includes graphite and watercolour wash.license:Public domain
9title: Alexandre Jean Dubois Drahonet (1791-1834) - Seaman Charles Hiches (b. 1789), Royal Navy - RCIN 407065 - Royal Collection
artist: Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet
date: 1832
credit: royal Collection
license:Public domain
title: Alexandre Jean Dubois Drahonet (1791-1834) - Midshipman George Bott, Royal Navy - RCIN 407064 - Royal Collection
artist: Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet
date: 1832
credit: royal Collection
license:Public domain
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