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A half-length portrait to the left, wearing a captain’s full dress uniform and the star and ribbon of a KB. Warren originally intended to enter the church, but in a change of heart he joined the navy instead. Nonetheless he became a Member of Parliament for Great Marlow in Buckinghamshire, while still a midshipman. He served in the American War of Independence, and during the Revolutionary Wars in 1794 was commodore of a frigate squadron on the coast of France. He intercepted a French squadron and captured three out of four. In the same year he took a French Royalist army to Quiberon Bay, landed them and picked up the survivors after they were defeated. In 1798 he foiled a French attempt on Ireland by capturing four of their ships. In 1802 he went as Ambassador Extraordinary to Russia.
Title
Captain John Borlase Warren (1753–1822)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 76 x W 63.5 cm
Accession number
BHC3078
Acquisition method
National Maritime Museum (Greenwich Hospital Collection)
Work type
Painting
