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Captain Samuel Hood, 1724-1816. A three-quarter-length portrait seated to left and cross-legged. He wears a brown coat laced with silver and with broad lapels. His waistcoat and breeches are black and his white stockings are shown pulled over the knees. H
1748
National Maritime Museum

Captain the Honourable George Edgcumbe, 1720-95. A three-quarter-length portrait wearing captain's full-dress uniform, 1748-67. He wears his own hair, tied in a bow at the back and a waistcoat and cuffs edged in gold. He holds the hilt of his sword i
1748
National Maritime Museum

Shipping off Woolwich. Viewed from Galleon's Point on the north side of the Thames, the 50-gun ship, with the stern of a bomb ketch visible beyond her, is lying at the lower end of Woolwich Reach. Both ships fly the red ensign and on the larger one t
1748
National Maritime Museum

Rear-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1748-1810, 1st Baron Collingwood. A full-length portrait to the right, showing Collingwood in rear-admiral’s full dress uniform of the 1795–1812 pattern (with inaccuracies), wearing his medals for the First o
1827
National Maritime Museum