Geoff Hunt RSMA is known to millions of readers across the world as the artist responsible for the covers of Patrick O'Brian's novels featuring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the leading marine artists of his generation and his paintings of square-riggers, sea battles and naval operations, as well as deck and port scenes, truly evoke the era of Nelson's Navy as well as the emergence of the Continental navy in America.