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The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816

Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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This is the freely painted oil study for the artist’s ‘The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816’ (BHC0617). In 1816 a squadron under Admiral Sir Edward Pellew was fitted out and sent to Algiers where they arrived, in company with a small Dutch squadron, on 27th August 1816. They sought the release of the British Consul, who had been detained, and over 1,000 Christian slaves, many being seamen taken by the Algerines. When they received no reply the fleet bombarded Algiers in the most spectacular of several similar punitive actions of this period that finally broke the power of the 'Barbary pirates', who had been a plague on European commerce in the Mediterranean for centuries. Pellew was subsequently created Viscount Exmouth. The artist went to Plymouth to sketch the men-of-war in the production of his painting.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816

Date

c.1836

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 47 x W 72.4 cm

Accession number

BHC0615

Work type

Painting

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