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A Trading Brig Entering the Bristol Avon. A brig is shown with fore-topgallant mast struck. It is running into the Bristol Avon and the end of the channel is marked with a beacon on the rocks on the left. What may be a pilot cutter is on the left, with la
1838
National Maritime Museum

Marquis Abraham Duquesne (1610-1688). A three-quarter length portrait to right in armour and wearing a fair full-bottomed wig. The sitter holds a baton in his right hand. This portrait is either a copy of, or based on an earlier original. Duquesne was a F
1838
National Maritime Museum

The West Indiaman 'Britannia'. A portrait of the West Indiaman 'Britannia', shown in three positions. On the left the ship is shown in stern view and on the far right in bow view. The ship is shown port broadside in the foreground, fly
1838
National Maritime Museum

Vasco da Gama, c.1460-1524. A half-length portrait to right, with the sitter wearing a breastplate, red-lined fur coat, gold-laced and slashed. He has a blue and gold turban, and around his neck the cross of Commander of the Portuguese Military Order of C
1838
National Maritime Museum

[formerly thought to be] Christopher Columbus, 1451 - 1506. (Updated, January 2017) A copy commissioned by Edward Hawke Locker for the Naval Gallery of Greenwich Hospital and presented in 1838, from an original in the Royal Gallery in Naples then thought
1838
National Maritime Museum

Rear-Admiral Sir Lambton Loraine, 11th Bt, 1838-1917. Loraine joined the Navy in 1852 and from April 1854 was a midshipman in the frigate 'Trincomalee' (today preserved as a museum ship at Hartlepool). From 1859 to 1862 he was a lieutenant in th
1884
National Maritime Museum