English Man-of-War | Isaac Sailmaker | 1721 Size:16"x12" Merchant shipping is shown in

Merchant shipping is shown in the Bristol Channel

The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars

The frigate USS President tried to break out of New York Harbour but was intercepted by a British squadron of four warships and forced to surrender

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English Man-of-War | Isaac Sailmaker | 1721 Size:16"x12" Merchant shipping is shown inIsaac Sailmaker (born Isaac Zeilmaker in Scheveningen, Dutch Republic, 1633; died in London on 28 June 1721) was a Dutch marine painter of the Baroque period who had a long artistic career in Britain. A contemporary of the better known Dutch marine painters, the van der Veldes, Sailmaker was eclipsed by them when they moved to London in the 1670s, but he outlived them and was still painting into his eighties. He was one of Britain's earliest marine