THOMAS LUNY (ST EWE 1759-1837 TEIGNMOUTH)

In the present painting Luny depicts an East Indiaman docked off Deptford Dockyard and then moving off on the left-hand side. The twin domes of Christopher Wren’s Royal Naval College at Greenwich can be seen between the two depictions of the ship. An almost identical composition showing the Monsieur, also dated 1788, was sold in these rooms on 11 July 2019, lot 127. Due to the French Revolutionary Wars, all merchant ships at this date were armed.