Stipple engraving. A hand-coloured oval bust-length portrait of Edward Hawke (1705–1781) in flag officer’s full-dress uniform, 1767–1783, with the ribbon and star of the Order of the Bath. Lettered beneath the image with the title: ‘Lord Hawke. From a Painting by Coates the Property of William Locker Esqr. Lieut. Govr. of Greenwich Hospital.’ Also lettered with the publication details: ‘Painted by Coates. / Engraved by F. Bartolozzi. / Published June 14 1796 by R. Faulder Bond St.’ This portrait was engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi in 1796 after Francis Cotes’s oil painting of the late 1760s, a version of which is now in the National Maritime Museum (see BHC2754). The print was published by Robert Fauldner as an illustration for John Charnock’s ‘Biographia Navalis; or, Impartial Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of Officers of the Navy of Great Britain, From the Year 1660 to the present Time’, 6 volumes (London: R. Faulder, 1794–8). The caption on the print states that it was based on a painting by Francis Cotes in the possession of William Locker, Lieutenant Governor of Greenwich Hospital. Presumably, this was among the pictures sold around the time of Locker’s death. Locker had served with Hawke, who was godfather to his son Edward Hawke Locker. The latter was later Secretary and a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital and was probably instrumental in persuading the third Lord Hawke to present a version of Cotes’s painting (BHC2754) to the Naval Gallery there on its foundation in 1824 (NB – it is not clear whether the painting presented in 1824 was the same version that Locker senior had owned, as two versions of the picture are recorded by Edward Mead Johnson in his catalogue raisonné of Cotes’s work.) (Updated May 2019.)