Rare Oil on Canvas depicting maritime battle of the Revolutionary War by internationally known artist, William Nowland Van Powell.  Mr. Powell, a native Memphian, had a reputation for historical accuracy which was borne out of his painting.  He consulted  ship's logs and plans of ship's architects, some obtained from museums in London, before committing subjects to canvas.                                                                                                               Mr. Powell was commissioned by the government of Paraguay for paintings of boats to b e featured on nine commemorative stamps.  He has permanent exhibits of paintings of American Revolutionary warships at the Navy Department in Washington and at Independence Mall in Philadelphia and at the John Paul Jones crypt at Annapolis,       Maryland.                                                                                                        He also has also exhibited paintings in Colonial Williamsburg, the C