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George Chambers: The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816  wikidata:Q50905099 reasonator:Q50905099
Artist
George Chambers  (1803–1840)  wikidata:Q3951062
 
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 23 October 1803 Edit this at Wikidata 29 October 1840 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Whitby Brighton
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creator QS:P170,Q3951062
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Author
George Chambers, senior
Title
The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816 Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816 Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816 Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre marine art Edit this at Wikidata
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English: The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816

This is the freely painted oil study of George Chambers Senior’s ‘The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816’ (BHC0617).

In 1816 a squadron under Admiral Sir Edward Pellew was fitted out and sent to Algiers where they arrived, in company with a small Dutch squadron, on 27 August 1816. They sought the release of the British Consul, who had been detained, and over 1000 Christian slaves, many being seamen taken by the Algerines. When they received no reply the fleet bombarded Algiers in the most spectacular of several similar punitive actions of this period that finally broke the power of the 'Barbary pirates', who had been a plague on European commerce in the Mediterranean for centuries. Pellew was subsequently created Viscount Exmouth.

The artist, George Chambers Senior (1803–40), went to Plymouth to sketch the men-of-war in the production of his painting. The NMM has a number of the preliminary drawings for it. In this oil study Chambers laid out the colours and masses of light, shade and smoke with the ‘Impregnable’ on the right and the ‘Minden’ in the left middle distance, as well as the vessels closer to batteries of the harbour, but omitting meticulous detail in favour of an atmospheric impression.

The Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816
Date circa 1836
date QS:P571,+1836-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions Painting 470 x 724 mm
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
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Royal Museums Greenwich
Accession number
BHC0615
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Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12107
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Acquisition Number: OP1958-11
id number: BHC0615
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