Category:Thomas Yates (artist)
Thomas Yates, born about 1760 and was commissioned as a Royal Naval lieutenant in 1782. It is not clear when he gave up the sea to become a painter but he first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1788 and continued to do so until 1794, specializing in sea actions and other marine views. His work is rare, since his career was short and came to a tragic end. He and his wife shared a house (formerly owned by his great-uncle, the actor Richard Yates) with a Miss Jones, and they were in dispute over who owned it. On 29 August 1796, his wife being out, Yates went into the garden and was locked out by Miss Jones. As he tried to climb back in through a kitchen window, he was shot dead by a neighbour and friend of Miss Jones, a Mr Sellers. At trial the jury accepted the argument that Sellers had acted to protect Miss Jones, and convicted him of manslaughter: he was fined 1 shilling (5 pence) and imprisoned for six months
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Date of birth | 1766 | ||||
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Date of death | 1796 London | ||||
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Antelope and Atalante.jpg 1,280 × 899; 1.24 MB
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English men of war in the Downs PAG9686.jpg 1,280 × 742; 360 KB
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HM brig 'Scourge' capturing the 'Sans Culotte', 13 March 1793 RMG BHC0462.jpg 1,166 × 846; 892 KB
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HM brig 'Scourge' capturing the 'Sans Culotte', 13 March 1793 RMG BHC0462.tiff 4,000 × 3,200; 36.62 MB
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Thomas Yates - A Royal Navy Two-Decker And Other Shipping Off Gibraltar 374761.jpg 1,940 × 1,549; 1.89 MB