Marine Auction News
Flagship Painting Has Experts In A Flap: Is It Sirius?
Thursday August 13, 1987
As a watercolour claimed to be the only contemporary painting of HMS Sirius, flagship of the First Fleet, goes up for auction today, doubts are being raised as to whether the subject really is the Sirius. The painting was scheduled to be auctioned at the annual Cowes Week sale of marine p