A merchant captain turned marine painter, Nicholas Pocock captured the ferocity of the British-French fight on the “Glorious First of June.” On June 1, 1794, British artist Nicholas Pocock witnessed the first important naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars from the deck of the frigate HMS Pegasus. Surrounded by broadsides and gun smoke from …
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