"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
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