Maritime

Privately commissioned paintings from the age of sail. If you are interested in commissioning a painting please click on the Contact link above.

first rate British line of battle ship in action with ship on fire in the background

HMS Association at the Battle of Vigo Bay 1702

HMS Association in the early hours of 23rd October 1702, 5 years before its wrecking, and the events of the previous painting. Here, Association is part of an English-Dutch fleet that have tracked Spanish and French ships to Vigo Bay in Northern Spain. The assault on the combined French-Spanish fleet was an overwhelming victory resulting in all the defending fleet’s ships being either burnt or captured. Association is in the foreground, attacking a battery of guns at the entrance to the harbour. Just ahead is the Dutch ship De Zeven Provinciën (1694), and off the right is HMS Torbay ablaze, having been the first to break through the barricade of lashed-together masts and yards.

first rate British line of battle ship in rough storm

HMS Association on the evening of 22nd October 1707

This is HMS Association depicted in the early evening of 22nd October 1707, hours before she was wrecked off the Isles of Scilly in one of Britain’s worst maritime disasters. The event inspired a solution to the longitude problem that had eluded navigators for many years.

HMS Surprise and Turkish frigate Torgud

A scene from 'The Ionian Mission' by Patirck O'Brian

The Battle of Camperdown

HMS Powerful pushes through the Dutch line in the historic 1797 action

Grytviken Harbour