Commemoration of the XIth October MDCCXCVII [The Battle of Camperdown]

Location

Country: Gibraltar
City: Gibraltar
Place: Governor's Residence, The Convent

Robert Smirke was born in Wigton, Carlisle. He was brought to London by his father in 1766 and apprenticed to a coach painter named Bromley. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1772 and exhibited at the Academy from 1786 to 1800, in 1805 and in 1815. He became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1791 and a full Royal Academician two years later. Smirke specialised in unusually small scale scenes from literary or theatrical subjects, and his works are often humorous. His radical and revolutionary opinions led George III to bar his appointment as Keeper of the Royal Academy in 1804. The artist died at the age of 92 at his home in Osnaburgh Terrace, near Regent's Park, London.

People

Adam, Viscount Duncan Duncan (1731 - 1804), Sir Richard, 1st Baronet Onslow (1741 - 1817), Sir Henry Trollope (1756 - 1839), John Inglis , Sir John Knight (1747 - 1831), Sir William George Fairfax (1739 - 1813), Sir Thomas Byard , William O'Brien Drury (1754 - 1811), Josiah Robert Wells , Richard Rundle Burgess (1754 - 1797), John Philips , James Walker (1764 - 1831), Sir William Hotham (1772 - 1848), William Bligh (1754 - 1817), George Gregory ( - 1814), Sir Andrew Mitchell (1757 - 1806), Edward O'Bryen (c.1753 - 1808), Sir William Essington (1753 - 1816)

Places

Subjects

trumpet, group portrait, horse, smoke, sea, naval officer, trident, winged victory, Britannia, Battle of Camperdown, ship

Materials & Techniques

engraving

Artist

Robert Smirke (1753 - 1845)
John, I Smart (1741 - 1811)
James Parker (1750 - 1805)
George Noble

Title

Commemoration of the XIth October MDCCXCVII [The Battle of Camperdown]

Date

1803

Medium

Engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Colnaghi, June 1952

GAC number

1711