Painting. [Model of HMS] ROYAL GEORGE, / 1st: Rate 100 Guns. [Stern view]. / [bl] IOS. WILLIAMS ; [br] Marshall P. 1774. - 1774. - Oil on canvas, 76x105.5cm in gilt frame, 93x122x7.5cm. - Perspective painting at[45 degree angle from Navy Board original plans. - Commissioned in 1773 by King George III as part of a series of paired bow and stern paintings of British warship models, one example of each class of ship in the naval establishment. Ship designed 1745 Establishment; built Woolwich Dockyard; ex-Royal Anne, renamed 17 January 1756; launched 18 February 1756; 100 guns 1st Rate; foundered at Spithead, 29 August 1782; guns and stores recovered by diving bell 1839, then hull blown up; wreck raied 1840