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Nicholas Pocock
British Painter,
1741-1821
English painter. After an apprenticeship in the Bristol shipbuilding yards of Richard Champion, Pocock began a career at sea in the mid-1760s. He was a practised and gifted amateur watercolourist (his earliest signed and dated watercolour is from 1762), and when in command of the Lloyd, one of Champion's merchantmen, he began to keep detailed logbooks illustrated with wash drawings (four at London, N. Mar. Mus.). In 1780 he gave up his sea career, married and sent his first oil painting to the Royal Academy. The picture arrived too late for exhibition, but Sir Joshua Reynolds wrote back, noting 'It is much beyond what I expected from a first essay in oil colours'. Pocock exhibited annually at the Academy between 1782 and 1812 and enjoyed a steady supply of commissions for oil paintings and watercolours, mostly of marine subject-matter. He produced a series of watercolour views of Bristol (stylistically close to Edward Dayes) in the 1780s, many of which were engraved, and of Iceland in 1791.
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Painting ID:: 32774
The British Fleet
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Watercolour
480x750cm
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Painting ID:: 37832
A British convoy in a gale during the american war of independence
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Oil on canvas
21x30in
53.3x76.2cm
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Painting ID:: 37891
The Battle of the Nile,1 August 1798
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The Scene in Aboukir Bay as the British Fleet sails in to attack the line of anchored French Ships.
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Painting ID:: 49738
This work of am exposing they five vessel as elbow bare that gora with Horatio Nelson and banskarriar
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Tremasta clean to boger am failing the depend Victory as bare guarded to be days and am laying in an orlogsdocka in Portsmouth
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Painting ID:: 86801
Santodomingo
Oil on canvas
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Nicholas Pocock
British Painter,
1741-1821
English painter. After an apprenticeship in the Bristol shipbuilding yards of Richard Champion, Pocock began a career at sea in the mid-1760s. He was a practised and gifted amateur watercolourist (his earliest signed and dated watercolour is from 1762), and when in command of the Lloyd, one of Champion's merchantmen, he began to keep detailed logbooks illustrated with wash drawings (four at London, N. Mar. Mus.). In 1780 he gave up his sea career, married and sent his first oil painting to the Royal Academy. The picture arrived too late for exhibition, but Sir Joshua Reynolds wrote back, noting 'It is much beyond what I expected from a first essay in oil colours'. Pocock exhibited annually at the Academy between 1782 and 1812 and enjoyed a steady supply of commissions for oil paintings and watercolours, mostly of marine subject-matter. He produced a series of watercolour views of Bristol (stylistically close to Edward Dayes) in the 1780s, many of which were engraved, and of Iceland in 1791.
. Related Artists to Nicholas Pocock: | Charles Hunt | Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Called Il Guercino | Jean Restout | Arnold Bocklin | Pier Leone Ghezzi |
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