HMS Victory with the Body of Nelson (1806 England)

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aquatint engraving

Robert Dodd, published 1806.

31.50inch wide    22.00inch high    (80.01 cm wide  55.88 cm high)

40.25inch framed width   30.75inch framed height (102.23 cm framed width  78.10 cm framed height)

Biography of Robert Dodd (1748–1815)
British marine painter and graphic artist who lived and worked in Wapping, London. Nothing is known about his training and little of his career but he was a prolific aquatint engraver who published much of his own work, which was also engraved by others. He exhibited at the Society of Artists in London in 1780 and the Royal Academy between 1782 and 1809. He produced fine and detailed portrayals of famous ships, such as Nelson’s ‘Victory Sailing from Spithead’ (1791, National Maritime Museum, London) and also painted naval actions of both the American Revolutionary War and the French Wars of 1793–1815. He conveyed well the drama of a battle and storm through spectacular light effects, such as the sun’s rays piercing dark clouds, and by contrasting fire and black smoke against a serene blue sky. He also painted and engraved a series of views of the Royal Dockyards and of Greenwich Hospital, of which the oil for the latter is in the National Maritime Museum, London.
In 1795 he painted a huge canvas of the end of Lord Howe’s victory at the Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794, for the dining room of his local inn in Commercial Road, London: this too is now at Greenwich.

Maple framed aquatint engraving, the picture painted and engraved by Robert Dodd, published 1806.

gbp 2350 (Pound Sterling)

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