Lord Duncan

An oval bust-length portrait of Adam Duncan (1731–1804) in profile to left wearing admiral's full dress uniform, 1795-1812, with a flag officer’s gold medal for the Battle of Camperdown and the sash and star of the Russian Imperial Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky. Lettered beneath the image with the title, ‘Admiral Lord Duncan’. Also lettered with the engraver’s name: ‘J. Chapman sculp.’ This print was engraved by John Chapman after John Hoppner’s full-length oil painting of 1798, which is now in Forfar Town and County Hall in eastern Scotland. Chapman’s source may have been James Ward’s mezzotint after the painting, published in March 1798 (see PAH5451), rather than Hoppner’s original picture. This print is from the same plate published by Henry Delahoy Symonds as an illustration in ‘The Monthly Visitor, and Pocket Companion’, volume 4 (1798) , opposite page 217, alongside ‘Memoirs of Lord Viscount Duncan’, pp. 217–226, (see PAD3072). (Updated June 2019.)

Object Details

ID: PAI9503
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Chapman, John
People: Duncan, Adam
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 127 x 86 mm, Plate: 82 x 66 mm;