Nelson's Navy by David Bell 1,000-piece Puzzle

Watercolour artist David Bell is renowned for his historic marine, aviation, and steam locomotive paintings. He combines great technical skill with imagination and vision to create evocative and atmospheric works with incredible attention to detail. 

This 1000-piece puzzle depicts the ships of Nelson’s squadron prior to Trafalgar, with the 104-gun HMS Victory in the foreground followed by some of the 74-gun ‘ships of the line’. Either side of the image of HMS Victory’s figurehead, profiled in black and white, are the two columns of Nelson and Collingwood as they were at the Battle of Trafalgar. The actual battle is loosely illustrated at the bottom right with HMS Victory in the centre ‘breaking the line’. The small watercolours on the outside are many of the ships that Nelson served aboard from his first, the 64-gun HMS Raisonnable in 1760 to his last, HMS Victory in 1805.

Puzzle measures 48x68cm when complete.