This painting by George Chambers II, relates to Admiral Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield’s search for the missing Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin in 1852. The depiction of the steamer ‘Isabel’ sailing across glassy green Arctic waters scattered with ice floating beneath an atmospherically lit sky could be influenced by the depiction of the same vessel lying off Deptford by George Chambers I (BHC3419). The artist was a son of George Chambers I (1803–1840). On his father's death he was admitted, aged 11, to the Greenwich Hospital School on the recommendation of E. H. Locker, the Hospital Secretary and one of his father's patrons. This fact suggests he may subsequently have gone to sea, since this was a general condition of entry. He painted attractive oil sketches of the Thames in a rather fluid medium but his larger pictures are less accomplished than his father's.