A New Portrait of Matthew Flinders
Gary L. Sturgess
7/13/20241 min read
A previously unknown portrait of Matthew Flinders has been revealed by his family, as his remains are re-interred at his parish church at Donington in Lincolnshire. It is thought to have been painted by William Westall, who sailed with him on the Investigator.
It shows an older man carrying more weight than in the previously known portraits, possibly the effect of his seven year detention by the French on the Isle de France. He died in 1814, aged 40.
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