Off the Isle of Shoals, HMS AMERICA, July 11, 1750

oil, 18" x 24"

$14,550

Although best known for his O'Brian art (and 200 other book covers), Geoff is internationally regarded as an expert in the ships of the Napoleonic Era Age of Sail, and his subject matter has included every major ship and Naval Battle of the period. Here he depicts the 44-Gun, Fifth Rate HMS AMERICA, which had the distinction of being a British vessel built in America at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1749 for use by the Royal Navy. She was launched in November, 1749, off Gillingham in the Medway in England, and subsequently renamed "Boston," until she was sold and broken up in 1757.

View the artist's alternative sketches for the painting below: