Sandy Brown, 'Queen'
Watercolour portrait of naval surgeon Alexander ‘Sandy’ Browne (d. 1804) in profile to viewer’s left against a black background, depicted while serving in the ‘Queen’. He wears warrant officer’s uniform (1787–1807 pattern) with his hair tied back in a queue. Inscribed beneath the image are the words: ‘Sandy Brown, Queen’.
In ‘Medicina Nautica: An Essay on the Diseases of Seamen; comprehending the history of health in His Majesty’s Fleet under the command of Richard Earl Howe, Admiral’, naval physician Thomas Trotter reported of the ‘Queen’ that ‘so completely was the duty in this ship adapted to health by her officers that Mr Browne, her surgeon, used to say, that they left him nothing to do. It was like her method of fighting, perfect.’
Another portrait mounted on the same page (PAH4931) depicts Reverend John I’Ans (sometimes spelled Ians), the chaplain of the ‘Queen’.
The sketch was made by Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844), who served alongside I’Ans and Browne as a lieutenant in the ‘Queen’. It is part of an album containing fifty-seven drawings (PAH4886–PAH4943) created by Hollis while serving in ‘Queen’ and in other ships, including ‘Pegase’ in 1785–90 and ‘Andromeda’ in 1790–93. The album includes portraits of Hollis’s shipmates, often with humorous captions, as well as scenes of everyday life ashore and afloat.
In ‘Medicina Nautica: An Essay on the Diseases of Seamen; comprehending the history of health in His Majesty’s Fleet under the command of Richard Earl Howe, Admiral’, naval physician Thomas Trotter reported of the ‘Queen’ that ‘so completely was the duty in this ship adapted to health by her officers that Mr Browne, her surgeon, used to say, that they left him nothing to do. It was like her method of fighting, perfect.’
Another portrait mounted on the same page (PAH4931) depicts Reverend John I’Ans (sometimes spelled Ians), the chaplain of the ‘Queen’.
The sketch was made by Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844), who served alongside I’Ans and Browne as a lieutenant in the ‘Queen’. It is part of an album containing fifty-seven drawings (PAH4886–PAH4943) created by Hollis while serving in ‘Queen’ and in other ships, including ‘Pegase’ in 1785–90 and ‘Andromeda’ in 1790–93. The album includes portraits of Hollis’s shipmates, often with humorous captions, as well as scenes of everyday life ashore and afloat.