John Philip Davis

John Philip "Pope" Davis (1784-1862), a portrait and subject painter, first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1811.

George Manby, author of the system for saving shipwrecked seamen on a lee shore, and by which lives have already been preserved.— This is a fine performance.

Manby is represented in a rocky recess on the sea shore, ready for the application his apparatus ton ship in the offing.

The attitude and scene are admirably historic : the figure is placed in position of great calmness and dignity - an erect and manly form, evidently conscious of the impending peril, yet evidently relying the resources which genius and experience have placed at its command.

The cave opens on the ocean : it is sunset, and the last light is descending in red and angry splendour on tire waves; the ship is struggling through the breakers, aud evidently on the verge of being wrecked.