Gentlemen Fishing is a 1794 genre painting by the American-born British artist Benjamin West. It features a group of men fishing at Dagenham Breach a lake on the River Thames a few miles east of Greenwich. Amongst the men portrayed on the expedition are West himself, the elegantly-dressed figure in the centre shown handing a fish to a servant, and his friend Admiral Hugh Palliser who was Governor of Greenwich Hospital. In the background maritime traffic on the Thames can be seen.