An oval bust-length portrait of Hugh Palliser (1723–1796) in admiral’s undress uniform, 1783–7, and a wig. Lettered below the image with the title, ‘Sir Hugh Palliser Bart. Governor of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.’ Also lettered with the production and publication details, ‘D. Orme del. / Ed. Orme sculp. / London Published 1796 by I. Sewell 32 Cornhill.’ This portrait was engraved by Edward Orme after a miniature by his brother, Daniel Orme. The print was published by John Sewell as an illustration in ‘The European Magazine, and London Review’ for April 1796 (volume 29). It appeared alongside an obituary of the sitter (pp. 209–210), who died on 19 March 1796. Palliser was appointed Governor of Greenwich Hospital in 1780, as one of the last acts of his patron Lord Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty, before the fall of Lord North's government. Palliser, who rose to Admiral in 1787, had retained Sandwich's support in the face of the public opprobrium which made him loser in the 'Keppel Affair' - the recriminations following the Battle of Ushant in 1778, in which he was a vice-admiral and Keppel's second-in-command. He repaid the debt by commissioning Gainsborough to paint Sandwich's portrait for the Hospital in 1783 (see BHC3009). On his death in 1796 – which this print marks – he left a number of other paintings relating to his own career to the Hospital. See PAD3032, a better copy with the publisher's imprint and the source (Sewell, for the 'European Magazine'). (Updated May 2019.)