William Anderson was a Scottish artist who specialised in marine art. He was well-regarded for his detailed and accurate portraits of ships under sail, exhibiting his works annually in London between
Self-portrait of Anderson
Shipping on the Thames off Deptford
The Battle of Cape Finisterre
Capture of Fort Saint Louis, Martinique, 1794
Sir Samuel Warren KCB KCH was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
HMS Bellerophon, detail from Scene in Plymouth Sound in August 1815, an 1816 painting by John James Chalon. Warren commanded her in the Baltic between 1808 and 1809.
Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies. Warren was part of the British force which captured the city, and the island of Java, in 1811.