A half-length portrait, very slightly to the left, showing Sutton in a snuff-coloured cloth coat and a light brown full-bottomed wig; thought to have been painted around 1730.
Samuel Sutton was a brewer and owned a coffeehouse. He experimented with methods of ventilating ships to rid them of the foul air that collected in the lower decks, and was supported by the physician Richard Mead. In the 1740s he achieved some success employing a furnace and a system of pipes, which was adopted in a number of ships, and patented by George II.