Mr Richardson said the painting was important because not only does it “document one man’s career path, but he is indicative of a much wider tradition of seafaring in this era among Manx people”.<\/p>\n
It was a period when the Royal Navy was rapidly expanding during the American War of Independence, he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Richardson explained that traditionally strong seafaring Manx people had previously been taken against their will into the Royal Navy.<\/p>\n
However, during Major Crebbin’s time there was a “change in outlook where young men would see it as a career,” he said.<\/p>\n
“If you took part in an enemy capture, that ship would become a prize of war [and] would be worth a lot of money, and you would be given a share of that.<\/p>\n
“It was a dramatic time in history where the groundwork of the modern world is being established,” said Mr Richardson, adding: “The Isle of Man played a crucial part in that.”<\/p>\n
Newspapers from the time indicated that every vessel in the Royal Navy had a Manxman on board, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Richardson said the painting was important because not only does it “document one man’s career path, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-266509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}