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Arctic explorers: paintings by Stephen Pearce, 1850-86


39 Portraits in set

A set of painted studies for a 'historical picture' (NPG 1208), a group portrait showing naval officers and explorers planning the search for explorer Sir John Franklin, whose expedition had last been seen in Baffin Bay in 1845. Commissioned by John Barrow, Archivist to the Admiralty.

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Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield, replica by Stephen Pearce - NPG 921

Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield

replica by Stephen Pearce
oil on millboard, late 19th century, based on a work of 1853
NPG 921