The Scipion on entering the harbour ran aboard the Brelots by George Philip Reinagle

George Philip Reinagle (1802 – 6 December 1835) was an English marine painter,

Life

George Philip Reinagle was born in 1802 and was the third son of painter

Ramsay Richard Reinagle Ramsay Richard Reinagle (19 March 1775 – 17 November 1862) was an English portrait, landscape, and animal painter, and son of Philip Reinagle. Biography Ramsay Richard Reinagle was a pupil of his father Philip Reinagle, whose style he foll ...

. He began painting under the tutelage of his father, though would mostly develop his skills by studying the works of

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at the

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. Reinagle would paint with oil as well as watercolours. In 1822, he presented his work for the first time at the

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, showing a portrait of a gentleman. He would then exhibit ''Ship in a Storm firing a Signal of Distress'' and a ''Calm'' in 1824, and ''A Dutch Fleet of the Seventeenth Century coming to Anchor in a Breeze'' the following year. In 1827, he witnessed the

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and would subsequently paint a number of paintings depicting the battle such as ''Illustrations of the Battle of Navarin'' and ''Illustrations of the Occurrences at the Entrance of the Bay of Patras between the English Squadron and Turkish Fleets 1827''. In 1834, Reinagle produced ''Admiral Napier's Glorious Triumph over the Miguelite Squadron'' after travelling with Admiral Charles Napier's fleet. Reinagle's works have been showcased at the

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, and the

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. Reinagle died on 6 December 1835 in

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, London at the age of 33.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reinagle, George Philip 1802 births 1835 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters Landscape artists British marine artists 19th-century English male artists