Thomas Elliott, (British, fl.1790-c.1800)

The Capture of the 32-gun French frigate Amiable and the corvette Ceres after their encounter with Sir Samuel Hood in the Barfleur, with the Valiant and the Magnificent in the Mona Passage, 19 April 1782

The Capture of the 32-gun French frigate Amiable and the corvette Ceres after their encounter with Sir Samuel Hood in the Barfleur, with the Valiant and the Magnificent in the Mona Passage, 19 April 1782
signed and indistinctly inscribed 'T.Elliott/P---' (lower right)
oil on canvas
60.7 x 91.4cm (23 7/8 x 36in).

Provenance
With Arthur Ackermann & Sons Ltd., London.
Private collection, UK.

The Battle of the Mona Passage, the strait that separates the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, was a naval engagement on 19 April 1782, which took place in the aftermath of the Battle of the Saintes between Britain and France during the American Revolutionary War. A British fleet under Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood pursued a small French fleet under Georges-François de Framond, which had managed to escape the victorious British fleet a week earlier. The two fleets met and engaged at the Mona Passage where the British overtook and captured four French ships, two of which were 64-gun ships of the line, the Caton and the Jason.