Artist: Phillip James De Loutherbourg
Dátum: 1799
Veľkosť: 21 x 152 cm
Múzeum: Tate Britain (London, United Kingdom)
technika: Oil On Canvas
By 1800, de Loutherbourg was celebrated for his dramatic depictions of maritime disasters and sea battles. The subject here is the decisive moment in the battle of Camperdown, off the Dutch coast, in 1797.A British fleet defeated the Dutch, who were then allied with the French. The flagship Venerable fires its last broadside at the Dutch Vryhied. Loutherbourg, who was chief designer of scenery at the Drury Lane Theatre, was more concerned with dramatic effect than documentation. His picture was said to express
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