Thomas Buttersworth
A Royal Navy brig chasing and engaging a well-armed pirate lugger
British Men of War off Dover
Commodore Dance discovering the French Fleet under Rear-Admiral Comte de Linois
Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast
To the Rescue
Nelson's Inshore Blockading Squadron at Cadiz, July 1797
H.M.S. Victory in full Sail and in a Squall
A Deal Lugger going off to Storm bound Ships in the Downs
Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast
A British frigate bowling down the Channel on a breezy day past the Eddystone lighthouse
Storm Brewing
Thomas Buttersworth (5 May 1768 – November 1842) was an English seaman of the Napoleonic wars period who became a marine painter. He produced works to commission, and was little exhibited during his lifetime.
Life
Butterworth was born on the Isle of Wight. He enlisted in the Royal Navy in London in 1795, and served on HMS Caroline during the wars with France, before being invalided home from Minorca in 1800.
The National Maritime Museum in London has 27 watercolours by him, several of which are mounted on sheets from 18th century printed signal and muster books. He went on to paint numerous naval battle scenes and pictures such as the ‘'Inshore Squadron off Cadiz in 1797'’ which are thought to show scenes he witnessed. On being appointed Marine Painter to the East India Company he painted ship portraits on commission. It had been thought that he died in 1830, but recent research has found that he painted Queen Victoria’s visit to Edinburgh in 1842 before he died in London later that year.[1]
His son James Edward Buttersworth (1817–1894) also became a maritime painter.[2]
Gallery
British armed top sail schooner off Malaga, Spain, in the collection at The Mariners' Museum
British brig attacking a French lugger in the collection at The Mariners' Museum
the London off the Seven Sisters (1820) in the collection at The Mariners' Museum
battle between United States & Macedonian (ca. 1820) in the collection at The Mariners' Museum
References
National Maritime Museum, "Thomas Buttersworth"
Robert McKenna, The Dictionary of Nautical Literacy McGraw Hill 2003 page 48 ISBN 0-07-141950-0
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