Proof. A half-length portrait in captain’s undress uniform, 1748–1767. Lettered beneath the image with the title ‘Commodore Harrison’ and the production and publication details: ‘Sir Joshua Reynolds Pinxt. S. W. Reynolds Sculpt. Published by the Engraver, Bayswater 1822.’ This portrait was engraved in mezzotint by Samuel William Reynolds after an original painting by Joshua Reynolds. Reynolds’s painting was probably produced in 1763 and is now at Saltram, Devon. The sitter in this portrait is probably Thomas Harrison (1725–1768), who commanded the ‘Venus’, 36 guns, at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in November 1759 and who was subsequently appointed commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean in September 1763. In ‘A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ (1899, volume 2, page 444), Algernon Graves and William Vine Cronin identify the sitter as ‘John Harrison, Esq. late commodore of his majesty’s squadron in the Mediterranean’, whose death on 1 February 1768 was reported in the Gentleman’s Magazine (volume 38, page 94). However, the reference in the Gentleman’s Magazine to ‘John Harrison’ is almost certainly a misprint and the obituary actually refers to Thomas Harrison, who died on 1 February 1768. Samuel William Reynolds, the engraver of this print, was a successful mezzotint engraver, who produced a large number of engravings after works by his namesake Sir Joshua Reynolds (no relation) in the 1820s. (Updated April 2019.)