An oval bust-length portrait of John Stewart (1774–1811) in captain’s (over three years) undress uniform, 1795–1812, with the ribbon of the naval gold medal that Stewart was awarded for his capture of the Turkish vessel ‘Badere Zaffere’, 50 guns, when in command of the ‘Seahorse’, 38 guns, in July 1808. Lettered beneath the image with the sitter’s coat of arms and the title, ‘Captn. John Stewart RN.’ Also lettered with the production details and publication line, ‘Engraved by Page from a Drawing in the possession of W. Adam Esq. / Published May 31 1812 by Joyce Gold 103 Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, London.’ This print was engraved by R. Page after a drawing and published by Joyce Gold on 31 May 1812 as an illustration in ‘The Naval Chronicle’, volume 28 (July–December 1812), opposite page 1, alongside a ‘Memoir of the Public Services of the Late Captain John Stewart, R.N. Commander of H.M.S. Seahorse’, pp. 1–47. The portrait appears to be derived from the same picture which was engraved on larger scale in mezzotint by Charles Turner in September 1812 (see PAG9409). John Stewart served as a midshipman under Captain George Vancouver on his famous 1791–5 voyage, which explored and charted North America’s north-western Pacific coast. He subsequently served in the Mediterranean, in Egypt and in Constantinople in the Napoleonic Wars. (Updated May 2019.)