H.M.S. Crown and her squadron running up the Channel towards Deal where other ships of the fleet are anchored offshore

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Thomas Whitcombe (1763-after 1824)
H.M.S. Crown and her squadron running up the Channel towards Deal where other ships of the fleet are anchored offshore
signed and dated 'Thos.Whitcombe/1784' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 x 45 in. (76.2 x 114.3 cm.)

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Bought from Richard Green, London, 1987.

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拍品專文

Little is known about Thomas Whitcombe, despite his prodigious output as a marine artist. He is celebrated for recording the naval events of the French Revolutionary Wars, and over fifty plates of his paintings were included in The Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793-1817, J. Jenkins, London 1817.
Whitcombe exhibited only one painting at the British Institution in 1820, though he regularly contributed to the Royal Academy exhibitions between 1783 and 1824, working from London addresses.
H.M.S. Crown was a 64-gun Third Rate built at Blackwall in 1782, which, after her active service was over, became successively a prison ship (in 1798) and a powder hulk (in 1802), before being broken up in 1816.