Keywords: GAElliot.jpg en Brown ™s grand-manner portrait of General George Eliott 1717 “1790 is a great spectacle that captured both the painter and his subject at the pinnacle of their respective careers Descended from America ™s earliest settlers Brown grew up in Boston and trained in London under Benjamin West General Eliott commanded the British garrison against the allied Spanish and French forces at Gibraltar 1779 “83 The pyrotechnic portrait shows Eliott during a battle in September 1782 when the British deployed the newly devised technique of heated shot annihilating the enemy fleet 2016-04-06 http //www metmuseum org/art/collection/search/18113 Mather Brown other versions PD-old Mather Brown Category Great Siege of Gibraltar George Augustus Eliott 1st Baron Heathfield History of Gibraltar |