George Philip Reinagle

George Philip Reinagle (* 1802, † December 6, 1835 in London ) was an English marine painter.

Life

The youngest son of the painter Richard Ramsay Reinagle taking lessons from his father practiced as a marine painter, but above all by copying works of the Dutch Ludolf Bakhuizen and Willem van de Velde. The first picture he einsandte the Royal Academy of Arts, however, was the portrait of a gentleman. In the next few years works followed as ' Ship in a Storm firing a signal of distress, Calm and A Dutch Fleet of the Seventeenth Century coming to anchor in a Breeze.

In 1827 he was aboard the Mosquito witness the battle of Navarino, which he 1828 Illustrations of the Battle of Navarino and the Illustrations of the occurrences at the Entrance of the Bay of Patras Between The English squadron and Turkish Fleets verföffentlichte. In 1833 he was part of the British fleet under Admiral Charles John Napier at the Battle against Miguel of Portugal at Cabo de São Vicente. The resulting work Admiral Napier 's Glorious triumph over the Miguelite Squadron in 1834 he sent to the Royal Academy.

Painting Reinagle are, inter alia, to owned by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and the National Gallery of Canada.