This watercolour shows the ‘Lion’ anchored in her role as a training ship, depicted starboard bow. A small steamer features on the left of the picture. At right, a battleship(?) is partially hidden from view whilst a schooner sails in full view. Devonport dockyard is in the right distance.
Duguay Trouin was taken into the British Navy as ‘Implacable’. In 1855, she became a training ship; in 1871 she was renamed as ‘Lion’; in 1943 she became ‘Foudroyant’, but was paid off in 1947.
There is a picture in the NMM signed ‘H. Bush’, possibly this picture painted later from earlier photographs.