Overall: 74.5cm (29.3in) x 64cm (25.1in)
Oil on canvas. A British man-o’-war receives a pounding at the hands of a French boarding party during the Napoleonic Wars. Signed and dated lower left 1903.
Charles Dominique Fouqueray (1869-1956) studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel and Fernand Cormon. From 1908 he was Peintre de la Marine, following the career of his father, a naval officer. He was recipient of the 1909 Prix Rosa Bonheur, then in 1914 the first Prix de l’Indochine. During the First World War he produced many posters, including posters for the Serbian Flag Days and a dramatic poster of Cardinal Mercier watching over Belgium. He work as an illustrator included the ‘See Britain First’ campaign in the 1920s for Shell Oil, depicting romantic landscapes with traffic free roads.