How you can use this image
This image can be used for non-commercial research or private study purposes, and other UK exceptions to copyright permitted to users based in the United Kingdom under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Any other type of use will need to be cleared with the rights holder(s).
Review the copyright credit lines that are located underneath the image, as these indicate who manages the copyright (©) within the artwork, and the photographic rights within the image.
The collection that owns the artwork may have more information on their own website about permitted uses and image licensing options.
Review our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.
Notes
Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.
A depiction of Plymouth showing a fleet under an admiral of the blue squadron returning with a prize, in a topsail breeze, with views over Plymouth Sound. In the foreground is Firestone Bay, with Drake's Island in the left background and Mount Edgcumbe on the right. Through his careful delineation of the ships, which are entering the Cremyll Passage, the artist has fused a landscape painting with one concerned with the sea at a period when he was working in England. In the foreground a group of figures are occupied with fishing baskets and hauling a boat. A small coastal craft approaches from the right. Several other figures form groups along the shoreline. Serres was a well-born Frenchman from Gascony who ran away to sea in merchant service rather than follow family wish that he enter the Church.
Title
Return of a Fleet into Plymouth Harbour
Date
1766
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 91.5 x W 157.5 cm
Accession number
BHC1913
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
-
Ships in a Gale Victoria and Albert Museum -
Study – Country Road, House and Figures Harris Museum & Art Gallery -
Action at Tarrytown, 4 August 1776 National Trust, Melford Hall -
Forcing the Boom on the Hudson River, 9 October 1776 National Trust, Melford Hall -
The Capture of Havana, 1762: Storming of Morro Castle, 30 July National Maritime Museum -
Princess Charlotte Arriving at Harwich, September 1761 National Maritime Museum -
Return of a Fleet into Plymouth Harbour National Maritime Museum - 90 more