Thomas Whitcombe

1763 — 1824

English painter (1763-1824)

Thomas Whitcombe was an English painter who specialised in marine art. Among his work are over 150 actions the Royal Navy participated in during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and he exhibited his works at the Royal Academy, British Institution and Royal Society of British Artists. Whitcombe's pictures are highly sought after today.

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'Hibernia' beating off the privateer 'Comet', 10 January 1814: on quarter

'Hibernia' beating off the privateer 'Comet', 10 January 1814: port broadside, night

'Hibernia' beating off the privateer 'Comet', 10 January 1814: starboard broadside

A British Man of War before the Rock of Gibraltar.

A Merchantman in two positions off the South Coast

A merchantman off Dover

A three-masted merchantman beating her way up the Channel past Dover Castle

Battle of the Nile - start of the battle

Hibernia beating off the privateer Comet, 10 January 1814: returning to port

Rear Admiral Sir James Dundas

The bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816

The cutter Mary off Shakespeare Cliff, Dover

The East Indiaman Caesar

The East Indiaman Providence

The East Indiaman Warren Hastings

The Indiaman Britannia

The Indiaman Essex

The Ship Ealing Grove

The Ship Ealing Grove

The ship Phoenix

The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798: Beginning of the Action

Destruction of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, 14 September 1782

The Battle of The Saints, 12 April 1782: End of the Action

The Battle of the Saints, 12 April 1782: surrender of the Ville de Paris

The Battle of the Saints, 12 April 1782: surrender of the 'Ville de Paris'

The Thames at Chelsea

A Ship Running into Harbour with Other Craft at a Jetty

Shipbuilding on the Thames at Redriff

The merchantman 'Blenheim of London' (1790)

H.M.S. Bombay Castle, in two positions, in the Channel off Dover

The cutter Mary Ann and HMS Sylph

A becalmed man o'war firing a salute

A merchantman and other vessels off Castle Cornet, Guernsey

The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798

The Battle of Camperdown

The Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797

HMS Ethalion in action with the Spanish frigate Thetis off Cape Finisterre, 16 October 1799

The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798: End of the Action

Allemand's French squadron in pursuit of a British conovy, 1805

HMS Implacable and Centaur, 27 August 1808

Sir John Thomas Duckworth's action in the Dardanelles, 19 February 1807

Sir John Thomas Duckworth's passage of the Dardanelles, 19 February 1807

Vixen & The Man-O'-War

A Fishing Boat with a Warship at Anchor off Dover

HMS Diadem at the capture of the cape Good Hope

HMS Pearl and the Santa Monica, 14 September 1779

The Capture of the French Frigate Le Serene by the English Frigate Boreas

A Trinity House Yacht and a Revenue Cutter off Ramsgate.

A Trinity House Yacht and a Revenue Cutter off Ramsgate

HMS 'Spartan' and French Frigates: Beginning of the Action, Third of May 1810

The 'Spartan's' engagement with a Neapolitan squadron, 3 May 1810: end of the action

The capture of Saint Paul near the Isle de Bourbon, 21 September 1809

Underway off Portsmouth

Battle Scene in the English Channel between American Ship 'Wasp' and the English Brig 'Reindeer'

H.M.S Winterton Approaching Dover

Capture of La Gloire April 10th 1795

The bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816

View of Cape Town, Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, with a seventy-four gun ship lying-to for convoy

HMS Undaunted off Dover

The East Indiamen 'Minerva', 'Scaleby Castle' and 'Charles Grant'

Cabalva wrecked

Frigate in a Squall

Letter of Marque, 'Nelson'

Off the Dover Coast

Off the Dover Coast

Royal Naval Two-Decker and Cutter

Shipping off the Coast of Dover

Ships at Sea

Ships in a gale

The Battle of the Nile, 1–2 August 1798

Three British Men-o'-War and Four Fishing Boats in Breeze Off-Shore

Three British Men-o'-War and Two Fishing Boats in Breeze Off-Shore

A Lugger off Castle Cornet, Guernsey

Shipping off Castle Cornet

East Indiaman 'Taunton Castle', Captain James Urnston, Built by Mr Barnard for Sir Benjamin Hammet, 1790

Castle Cornet, Storm

Shipping Scene

Shipping off Castle Cornet