The Battle of Camperdown

The Battle of Camperdown is a 1799 history painting by the American-born painter John Singleton Copley.

Although he hoped to interest John Boydell, an alderman of the City of London, in the work, Copley's relationship with him had been damaged by disputes over his 1791 painting The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 and no agreement was reached.

[3] Copley exhibited the completed painting at Albemarle Street, London around eighteen months after the battle of Camperdown.

While it received respectful reviews and was viewed by George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, it failed to enjoy the same public success as his earlier paintings.

[6] A similar depiction of the battle of Camperdown by Daniel Orme, exhibited two years before Copley's painting, is now in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London.