Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour is an 1807 maritime painting by the English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner.

[1] It depicts two captured Danish ships of the line being brought into harbour by the Royal Navy at Spithead the major naval base off Portsmouth, Hampshire.

Britain had struck per-emptively to prevent the Danish Fleet falling into the hands of Napoleon's French Empire.

[2] However, by the time he exhibited the work at the Royal Academy's Spring Exhibition at Somerset House in 1809 he had renamed the canvas Spithead: Boat's Crew Recovering an Anchor due to the political backlash against the Copenhagen attack.

[3] Despite the fact one of the ships is clearly displaying the Danish flag, none of the reviewers appear to have picked up on this.