ATTRIBUTED TO ROBERT DODD (1748-1815 LONDON) An English frigate escorting a large international merchant convoy Oil on canvas 62 x 123 cm (24 3/8 x 48.1/4 in) The present work possibly depicts the Continental blockade of the Baltic region which was the foreign policy of Napoleon against Britain during the Napoleonic Wars (1806-1814). Dodd recorded maritime episodes of the French Revolution and the American War of Independence (1775-1783).