The marine painter Thomas Luny moved to fashionable Teignmouth, Devon, in mid-1807, probably for health reasons and stayed until his death thirty years later. His home there on Teign Street became known as Thomas Luny House. This painting of men-of-war, a fishing boat and figures onshore is typical of Luny’s picturesque Teignmouth coastal scenes (see TN6). A closely comparable painting dated a year before the present picture is at Worcester College, Oxford (fig. 1).