Royal Navy Art
Mar 17, 2011 Uncategorized
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Art
Dutch Attack on the Medway, June 1667 by Pieter Cornelisz van Soest, painted c. 1667. The captured ship Royal Charles is right of center.
The Battle of Scheveningen, 10 August 1653 by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten, painted c. 1654, depicts the final battle of the First Anglo-Dutch-War.
- British Marine Artists portraying the Royal Navy
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- 1681 – 1749 Peter Monamy
- 1725 – 1782 Francis Swaine
- 1740 – 1821 Nicholas Pocock
- 1747 – 1809 Robert Cleveley
- 1748 – 1815 Robert Dodd
- c1750 Monamy Swaine
- 1762 – 1822 Arthur William Devis
- 1775 – 1851 J. M. W. Turner R.A.
- W. L. Wyllie, R.A.
- Dutch Masters Portraying Naval Actions involving the Royal Navy
- French Masters Portraying Naval Actions involving the Royal Navy
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- 1805 – 1890 Auguste Étienne François Mayer
- 1783 – 1860 Pierre Julien Gilbert
- German Masters Portraying Naval Actions involving the Royal Navy
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- 1806 – 1867 Friedrich Bouterwek
Sea Shanty and other Ditties
- 1740 Rule Britannia
- 1800c Briton’s Strike Home
Naval Poetry
1732 – 1769 William Falconer a Scottish poet and the son of a barber in Edinburgh, where he was born, became a sailor, and was thus thoroughly competent to describe the management of the storm-tossed vessel, the career and fate of which are described in his poem, The Shipwreck (1762), a work of genuine, though unequal, talent
1806 Song. (From CAREY’S Poems, chiefly amatory.)
1806 Elegiac Stanzas on a Seaman
1807 Jul 10 The Mariner. (Including poetical sketches of various parts of the world.) By an Officer in the Navy.
1809 Dec 25 Nelsonian Memorial – Naval Anecdote from a passer-by.
1850 Rear Admiral Lord Nelson’s Victory
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Toll for the brave |
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Again the dismal prospect opens round,
The wreck, the shore, the dying, and the drown’d.
FALCONER
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The heart’s remote recesses to explore,
And touch us springs, when Prose avail’d no more.
FALCONER.
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Then you fill’d
The air with shouts of joy, and did proclaim,
“When Hope had left them, and grim-look’d Despair
Hover’d with sail-stretch’d wings over their heads,
To me, as to the Neptune of the Sea,
They ow’d the restitution of their goods,
Their lives and liberties.
MASSINGER.
Music Releases
- 01 Dec 08 Kidderminster Male Choir, a registered charity, announces the release of a CD called “Songs for Heroes” in support of the charity “Help for Heroes”.
