Richard B. Beechey

Anglo-Irish painter and Admiral in the Royal Navy. One of 18 children of British painter Sir William Beechey (1753–1839) and Ann Phyllis Jessop. His brothers included the British sea captain Frederick William Beechey, the portraitist Henry William Beechey and the painter George Duncan Beechey. Beechey joined the Royal Navy at the age of 14, and eventually rose to the rank of admiral. Like his father and two of his brothers he was a celebrated painter, who illustrated various ports and naval scenes. Author of "Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Straight." London, 1831.