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A half-length portrait to right, wearing flag officer's full dress uniform of 1767–1783, and white wig. The background consists of blue sky and the lower half forms a painted oval. Hood served under Sir George Rodney in the West Indies and as commander of the rear squadron at the Battle of the Saints, 1782, he received the surrender of de Grasse, the French Admiral. In 1793, when Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, he occupied Toulon. This was his last active service before he became Governor of Greenwich Hospital until his death. The artist was a pupil and assistant of Reynolds and practised portraiture at Plymouth until 1777, when he went to Italy to study, before settling in London in 1781. There is another version of this portrait in the City of Manchester collection.
Title
Admiral Samuel Hood (1724–1816), 1st Viscount Hood
Date
1784
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 76 x W 63.5 cm
Accession number
BHC2774
Work type
Painting