Sandy Innes, 'Queen'
Watercolour portrait of Lieutenant (later Captain) Alexander ‘Sandy’ Innes (1774–1839) in profile to viewer’s left, depicted while serving in the ‘Queen’. He wears lieutenant’s full-dress uniform (1787–95 pattern) and his hair is cropped short.
Inscribed beneath the image are his name and the name of the ship: ‘Sandy Innes, Queen’. Innes had been a midshipman in the ‘Queen’, before leaving the ship on 12 July 1795 to join the ‘Pegasus’ as a lieutenant. He rejoined the ‘Queen’ as a lieutenant in July 1795. Another portrait mounted on the same page (PAH4932) depicts a fellow lieutenant of the ‘Queen’, James ‘Jemmy’ Oughton.
The sketch was made by Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844), who served alongside Oughton and Innes as a lieutenant in the ‘Queen’. It is part of an album containing fifty-seven drawings (PAH4886–PAH4943) created by Hollis while serving in ‘Queen’ and in other ships, including ‘Pegase’ in 1785–90 and ‘Andromeda’ in 1790–93. The album includes portraits of Hollis’s shipmates, often with humorous captions, as well as scenes of everyday life ashore and afloat.
Inscribed beneath the image are his name and the name of the ship: ‘Sandy Innes, Queen’. Innes had been a midshipman in the ‘Queen’, before leaving the ship on 12 July 1795 to join the ‘Pegasus’ as a lieutenant. He rejoined the ‘Queen’ as a lieutenant in July 1795. Another portrait mounted on the same page (PAH4932) depicts a fellow lieutenant of the ‘Queen’, James ‘Jemmy’ Oughton.
The sketch was made by Aiskew Paffard Hollis (1764–1844), who served alongside Oughton and Innes as a lieutenant in the ‘Queen’. It is part of an album containing fifty-seven drawings (PAH4886–PAH4943) created by Hollis while serving in ‘Queen’ and in other ships, including ‘Pegase’ in 1785–90 and ‘Andromeda’ in 1790–93. The album includes portraits of Hollis’s shipmates, often with humorous captions, as well as scenes of everyday life ashore and afloat.