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THE 'BOUNTY CHRONICLES' FINE ART COLLECTION

 

                                     
"Fletcher Christian, RN. 1787"

This is a portrait of Christian in a dress coat and unusually holding a cutlass instead of the mandatory chart or a sextant – a clue to the violence that awaits his troubled passage through life? Being well-born Christian was more ambitious of deeds than  position.  This painting shows him at home on the Isle of Man after being selected as a midshipman on the Bounty. He was twenty-seven a little spoilt and enigmatic. The style of painting is seventeenth century northern renaissance with its receding background.

14" x 11" individual print