A three-quarter-length portrait of George Anson (1697–1762) in flag officer’s full-dress uniform, 1748–1767, with his hat under his arm. Anson rests his right hand on the fluke of an anchor and stands in front of a rocky cliffy, partly overgrown with foliage, with a ship in distance. Lettered beneath the image with the title: ‘The Rt. Honble George Lord Anson.’ This portrait is copied in reverse from James Macardell’s mezzotint of 1755 (see PAG6363), which is itself after Joshua Reynolds’s oil painting of 1753–5. A version of Reynolds’s portrait is now at Shugborough. (Updated May 2019).