Commemoration of the 14th February 1797 [The Battle of Cape St. Vincent]

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

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

Earl of St Vincent Jervis John (1735 - 1823), Sir Charles, 1st Baronet Thompson (c.1740 - 1799), William, 1st Baron Radstock Waldegrave (1753 - 1825), Sir William, 1st Baronet Parker (1743 - 1802), Horatio, Viscount Nelson Nelson (1758 - 1805), Thomas Lenox Frederick (1750 - 1799), Sir Charles Henry, 2nd Baronet Knowles (1754 - 1831), Cuthbert, Baron Collingwood Collingwood (1748 - 1810), Sir James Hawkins, 1st Baronet Whitshed (1762 - 1849), Sir Robert, Baronet Calder (1744/5 - 1818), James Dacres (1749 - 1810), James, 1st Baron de Saumarez Saumarez (1757 - 1836), Sir George Murray (1759 - 1819), Sir John Sutton (1758 - 1825), Sir Thomas, 1st Baronet Troubridge (c.1758 - 1807), Sir George Martin (1764 - 1847), Sir Thomas Foley (1757 - 1833), Sir George, 1st Baronet Grey (1767 - 1828), George Henry Towry (1767 - 1809), Ralph Willett Miller (1762 - 1799), John Irwin ( - 1812)

Places

Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic, Portugal

Subjects

male portrait, group portrait, lion, smoke, sea, wreath, flag, naval officer, cannon ball, cannon, Battle of Cape St. Vincent, ship

Materials & Techniques

engraving

Artist

Robert Smirke (1753 - 1845)
James Parker (1750 - 1805)
William Henry Worthington (c.1790 - )

Title

Commemoration of the 14th February 1797 [The Battle of Cape St. Vincent]

Date

published 1803

Medium

Engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Colnaghi, June 1952

GAC number

1717