Category:Albert Denison Somerville Denison

Watercolours by Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton, from sketches made by Albert Denison Somerville Denison

The collection, descended through the family of the Hon Albert Denison Somerville Denison (1835-1903), second son of the first Lord Londesborough, who served as second mate and subsequently acting lieutenant on the sloop Hornet 1856-9 and briefly as acting lieutenant on Sir Michael Seymour’s flagship HMS Calcutta. During this period Denison was involved in the fighting in the approaches to Canton in January 1857, when he was wounded, and in the attack on the Chinese war junks on 1 June 1857, both of which feature in this collection of watercolours.

This set of watercolours does not appear to relate to any lithographs by Dutton and so is likely to have been commissioned by Denison in the early 1860s, and were perhaps based on Denison’s sketches made on the spot.

The collection, was presented to the National Maritime Museum on 27 April 1987, the fiftieth anniversary of its opening, descended through the family of the Hon Albert Denison Somerville Denison (1835-1903).

Albert Denison 

Royal Navy rear-admiral (1835-1903)
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Date of birth	4 October 1835
Date of death	2 September 1903
Father	Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough
Mother	Henrietta Weld-Forester
Child	Daisy Denison Ernest William Denison, 6th Baron Londesborough Ivy Denison Lily Denison
Spouse	Louisa Crichlow Fabris (1873 – unknown value)
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