11/05/2026
We are Marine Artists, London, and are leading dealers in the paintings of Geoff Hunt, the famous artist who created the great covers of the Patrick O’Brian Aubrey/Maturin novels.
On our website www.marineartists.co.uk you will find original oil paintings and watercolours by Geoff as well as artist-signed limited editions – including all the available book cover images – and some wonderful Remarque prints; these have original and unique pencil drawings by Geoff Hunt on the limited editions.
Here is a superb Nelson oil painting currently for sale:
GEOFF HUNT, P.P.R.S.M.A.
(British, Contemporary)
"Commodore Nelson's Squadron: Gulf of Genoa, 11th August 1796"
Oil on Linen Canvas 22 x 30 inches (56 x 76 cm)
Signed, lower right
Framed
By 1796 Nelson had been in command of his favourite ship, the 64-gun HMS Agamemnon, for three years, steadily gaining in experience and seniority. While serving under Admirals Hood, Hotham and Jervis in the Mediterranean he had often been given overall command of a squadron of ships where, as senior captain, he was referred to by the courtesy title of commodore (not at this time a substantive rank), but he did not hoist his broad pendant as a first-class Commodore until 8th April 1796. Three days after this proud moment he led a squadron westward from Genoa along the Ligurian coast in support of the Austrian army, then pursuing a French army towards Savona. The ships were 'sailing along shore', an exceptionally unusual phrase to see in a logbook; they were in fact so close in to the steep-to coast that they could actually see the armies and see and hear the firing. From left to right: Agamemnon, Diadem (64), Meleager (32); the squadron also included Blanche (32), which appears to have been out ahead.
