The Battle of Martinique, April 17th 1782
Thomas Luny (London 1759 – Teignmouth 1837)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1786 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1194 x 1816 mm (47 x 71 ½ in)
Place of origin
Cornwall
Order this imageCollection
Berrington Hall, Herefordshire
NT 618102
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Battle of Martinique, April 17th 1782 by Thomas Luny (London 1759–Teignmouth 1837), signed and dated: on a spar, bottom left: T. Luny.1786 and inscribed, on shell at bottom of frame: The Situation of the Sandwich when attacked by the French Admiral and his Seconds, whom He Defeated 17th April, 1780.
Provenance
This, the two other pictures by Luny, and the copy of Paton’s painting, were acquired with the house when it was bought from Lord Rodney by the 1st Lord Cawley in 1901. (For further details, see Country Life, CXVI, December 1954, p.2182); Accepted in part-payment of death-duties in 1954 and transferred to the National Trust in 1959.
Makers and roles
Thomas Luny (London 1759 – Teignmouth 1837), artist
References
Hussey 1954 Christopher Hussey, ‘Berrington Hall, Herefordshire - III’, Country Life, vol.CXVI, 16 Dec.1954, p.2184 Trew 2003 Peter Trew, ‘Rodney and the Breaking of the Line’, in Nicholas Tracy & Martin Robson, eds., The Age of Sail, vol.2, 2003, illus. p.122.