01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #282

Geoff Hunt PPRSMA (born 1948) 

H.M.S. Trusty in English Harbour, Antigua

Lithograph

21" x 17"

Private collection

HMS Trusty (1782) was a fourth rate launched in 1782, used as a troopship from 1799 and a prison ship from 1809, and broken up in 1815. Trusty served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801.

The 50-gun ship Trusty takes on stores, while to the right a sloop is careened for attention. Fifty-gun ships were too small for battleships and too slow and unweatherly for anything else, but they did have two gun decks and twenty-four pounder cannon, and so usefully filled a niche as overseas and flotilla flagships. Some were built as late as 1814.  More about this work

Geoff Hunt PPRSMA (born 1948) is a British maritime artist and former President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. Hunt attended Kingston and Epsom Schools of Art, 1966–70, where he studied graphic design. Upon graduation, following a couple of years in advertising, Hunt established himself as a freelance artist and designer. Hunt was Art Editor for the popular Warship quarterly journal, from its inception in 1977 until 1979.

In February 2007, Hunt was asked by Rear-Admiral John Lippiett, Chief Executive of the Mary Rose Trust to paint an artist’s reconstruction of Henry VIII’s infamous flagship. Hunt accepted the commission, finally completing the painting in January 2009 after hours of extensive and meticulous research. An article by Hunt recounting the experience can be found in the Shipwright 2010 annual.

Hunt’s illustrations adorn The Frigate Surprise: The Design, Construction and Careers of Jack Aubrey’s Favourite Command (2008), which he co-authored with respected maritime historian, Brian Lavery. Aubrey’s creator Patrick O’Brian has proclaimed that ‘Geoff Hunt’s pictures, perfectly accurate in period and detail, but very far from merely representational, are often suffused with a light reminiscent of Canaletto.’

Hunt lives in Wimbledon with his wife and two children. Befitting his muse, Hunt’s studio is situated on the site of Merton Place, Admiral Nelson’s house. More on Geoff Hunt

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