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A three-quarter-length portrait to right in a brown cloth coat and black full-bottomed wig. He holds a baton in his right hand, and stands against a background of rock. On the right there is a two-decker ship with a red ensign, a commissioning pendant and a blue flag at the fore. The portrait was painted initially when Vernon was a captain and altered after he was promoted Vice-Admiral of the Blue. This entailed the substitution of a baton for a telescope as well as the addition of a flag in 1739, before he sailed for the West Indies. As a lieutenant he had served in Sir Cloudesley Shovell's flagship at the Battle of Malaga, 1704, and at the taking of Barcelona in the following year. In 1722 Vernon was returned to Parliament where in the 1730s he was a powerful advocate for war with Spain.
Philips was an extremely fashionable portrait painter, patronized by Frederick, Prince of Wales, and his circle of friends. He established a practice at Lincoln's Inn Fields. This portrait is signed 'C.Philips pinxit'.
Title
Admiral Edward Vernon (1684–1757)
Date
mid-1730s–1743
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 127 x W 101.5 cm
Accession number
BHC3068
Work type
Painting