Wright's career encompassed the latter years of the Seven Years' War and several of his works depict naval battles and the vessels involved. His painting of the Battle of Quiberon Bay, fought on 20 November 1759 and painted in 1760, depicts the wrecked 74-gun in the right foreground with the 64-gun ahead of her and the French and in flames in the right distance. To the left are the captured French 80-gun , with a two-deck English vessel.