
Audacity and the Indiamen
Original: Oil on canvas, 28" x 42" SOLD
Giclee print: 13" x 20" image on 350# Arches paper
Commissioned painting for the cover of the second novel in the American Revolution series by James Fender, titled Audacity, Privateer out of Portsmouth (UPNE publ, 2003). The scene is from the book and shows Audacity (ex-Jaguar), a captured British 18-gun sixth rate of the Blandford class in the process of capturing three Indiamen in June 1776 off the coast of the Azores. Audacity is noteworthy for its large, unusual, gilded figurehead of a Jaguar.