Explore: Lieutenant Buchanan

According to inscriptions on the engraved versions of 1814, Pocock’s two watercolours showing an engagement between the British ship ‘HMS Java’, and the American frigate ‘Constitution’ were painted ‘from a Sketch by Lieut. Buchanan’. Lieutenant Buchanan may have been a member of the crew aboard the ‘Java’ at the time of the battle, who made record sketches of the events.