Dickinson (William)

after Sir Joshua Reynolds, full length portrait in naval uniform, leaning on an anchor before large rocks, with ships anchored off the coast in the background, a posthumous portrait of the officer, who had died prematurely at the age of only 24 year that year, the painting commissioned by his father, Lord Granby,

mezzotint, 630 x 380 mm. (24 3/4 x 15 in), narrow margins but trimmed within the lower plate mark with the loss if the publisher’s imprint, a small loss to the blank lower left corner of the title field, [Chaloner Smith I.186.46 iii],