East Indiaman “Admiral Hughes” off Jamestown, St. Helena

Thomas Luny (1759 - 1837)

Oil on canvas

1790
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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Home Office, 2 Marsham Street
  • About the artist
    Thomas Luny, marine painter, apparently studied with the artist Francis Holman in London. He exhibited mostly at the Royal Academy, where he showed his work every year from 1780 to 1793. He showed nothing after 1793 until 1802, when he exhibited 'Battle of the Nile', and then nothing until the year of his death, when he exhibited three pictures. It is possible that in 1793 he joined the Royal Navy to fight in the French Revolutionary Wars. Luny retired to Teignmouth in Devon, in about 1810, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. In spite of being crippled by arthritis in both his hands and his legs for over 30 years he continued to paint assiduously and his total life's work is thought to have produced some 3000 pictures.
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  • Details
    Title
    East Indiaman “Admiral Hughes” off Jamestown, St. Helena
    Date
    1790
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 87.00 cm, width: 148.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Frank T Sabin, December 1960
    Inscription
    bl: Luny 1790
    GAC number
    5412