A half-length portrait to the right, showing Morgan in a black gown and white clerical tabs. Thomas Morgan’s first appointment as a chaplain in the Navy was to the 74-gun ‘Alfred’ in 1793 and he was present at the Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794. In 1798, he was in the 74-gun ‘Mars’, under Captain Alexander Hood, when she was involved in a fiercely fought single-ship action against the French 74-gun ‘Hercule’ off the Brittany coast. This had only just been built and was intercepted making its way north to join the French fleet at Brest. 'Hercule' eventually surrendered after losing more than 300 men. When the French captain came on board the ‘Mars’ he presented his sword to Morgan, who took it below to the mortally wound Hood. After further service in the Channel Fleet as secretary to Sir Charles Cotton, Morgan was appointed chaplain to Portsmouth Dockyard in 1817. He held the post until just before his death in 1851. The previously unidentified artist is John Hazlitt, who exhibited this painting at the Royal Academy in 1815 (no. 373) and we are grateful to Martin Hopkinson for pointing this out in January 2020. Hazlitt (1767-1837) was a minor but competent portraitist and brother of the much better-known writer and critic, William Hazlitt. [PvdM amended, 1/20]