The Arctic Council, 1851

Stephen Pearce’s famous painting of ‘The Arctic Council Planning a Search for Sir John Franklin’, painted in 1851, features John Franklin, James Fitzjames, John Barrow, George Back, William Edward Parry, Edward Bird, James Clark Ross, Francis Beaufort, Edward Sabine, W. A. Baille Hamilton, John Richardson, and Frederick Beechey. The Council advised the Admiralty in their planning the search for Franklin’s missing expedition.