Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Philip Affleck (1729-1799), Admiral
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c.1770
Painting by Edward Penny, small whole length, seated in captain’s uniform of 1767-74. National Maritime Museum (BHC 2505). Engraved J. Young 1792, the head made older (resembling that of NPG 1579), the uniform changed to admiral’s full dress (as NPG 1579) - an earlier state retained the captain’s coat but with admiral’s cuffs; H. R. Cook 1809, following the Young mezzotint, as bust-length oval, lettered Admiral of the White Squadron, but in captain’s full dress uniform of 1774-95 (the lapels differing from those originally painted by Penny). A later painted version with admiral’s uniform was with Chichester Antiques in 1949.
1783
Silhouette by William Wellings, ‘Captain Affleck’, sold Christie’s, 19 May 1980, lot 38.
1787
Pastel by John Russell, oval, in captain’s uniform of 1774-95. Mrs E. Lovell, London, 1894 (illus. album of 244 photographs of pictures by John Russell, compiled c.1900, p 25). Exhibited RA 1787 (378) as Captain Affleck.
c.1793
Painting by L. F. Abbott, see NPG 1579.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
Painting by Edward Penny, small whole length, seated in captain’s uniform of 1767-74. National Maritime Museum (BHC 2505). Engraved J. Young 1792, the head made older (resembling that of NPG 1579), the uniform changed to admiral’s full dress (as NPG 1579) - an earlier state retained the captain’s coat but with admiral’s cuffs; H. R. Cook 1809, following the Young mezzotint, as bust-length oval, lettered Admiral of the White Squadron, but in captain’s full dress uniform of 1774-95 (the lapels differing from those originally painted by Penny). A later painted version with admiral’s uniform was with Chichester Antiques in 1949.
1783
Silhouette by William Wellings, ‘Captain Affleck’, sold Christie’s, 19 May 1980, lot 38.
1787
Pastel by John Russell, oval, in captain’s uniform of 1774-95. Mrs E. Lovell, London, 1894 (illus. album of 244 photographs of pictures by John Russell, compiled c.1900, p 25). Exhibited RA 1787 (378) as Captain Affleck.
c.1793
Painting by L. F. Abbott, see NPG 1579.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.