[3] Fought in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred miles west of France, it ended in a victory for the Royal Navy fleet commanded by Admiral Richard Howe.

Mather a Boston-born painter who settled and worked in London, portrays a scene aboard Howe's flagship HMS Queen Charlotte.

Howe stands second from left in naval uniform (although he in reality he wore a civilian coat during the battle) with a drawn sword.

However, the main focus of the composition is to his right where a group of officers are clustered around Lieutenant Nevile of the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot, who is dying from after being hit by a French cannon shot.

Once Brown had completed the picture it was shown to George III and Queen Charlotte at Buckingham House and then exhibited at Daniel Orme's Gallery in Old Bond Street in 1795.