Lady Nelson in the Bay of Islands, 25 April 1806
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Lady Nelson was an armed survey vessel which departed for Australia in 1800. The vessel was so small and considered so unsuitable that many deserted at Portsmouth.
In 1806, “Her commander was instructed by Governor King to convey Tippahee, a New Zealand Chief of the Bay of Islands on the north-east coast, back from Sydney to his own dominions.” Tippahee had visited the governor of Sydney in a formal visit. He was welcomed and stayed at Government House, but had been very badly treated whilst travelling there aboard a Whaler.
“On Friday the 25th April the Lady Nelson, escorted by three canoes bore up between two-islands in the Bay of Islands and came to under the Island of Matuapo in two fathoms.”
This painting is signed in the lower right corner and dated in the lower left.
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