Lot 46: JAMES FULTON PRINGLE 1788-1847

H.M. FRIGATE PHOENIX LEAVING ST HELENA WITH JAMESTOWN OFF HER STERN

measurements note
76 by 120 cm., 30 by 47 in.

signed l.l.:J.Pringle Sydenham

oil on canvas

NOTE

Phoenix is seen here off St Helena, with Jamestown in the background. This is likely to be the 5th Rate 36-gun vessel which was built at Parsons, Burlesdon, on 15th July 1783, and which was finally wrecked in 1816 near Smyrna (see J.J. Colledge's, Ships of the Royal Navy)

St Helena was settled by the English East India Company between 1645 and 1659, and the capital of Jamestown, was named after James Duke of York, later King James II. In 1815 the British government selected Saint Helena as the place of detention of Napoleon Bonaparte; he was brought to the island in October 1815 and was lodged just outside Jamestown, and he remained on the Island until he died in May 1821. The Island was also used as a port of call on the long route to the Cape Colonies and India.