Captain <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shortland" class="extiw" title="w:John Shortland">John Shortland</a>, 1769-1810. This print is based on a miniature of the sitter, now MNT0089, this copy being presented with it. It originally accompanied a memoir of Shortland published in the 'Naval Chronicle' for 1810, just after his death. The original was most probably painted at Halifax, Nova Scotia, by Field - who then worked there - probably in late 1807 or early 1808 since it shows only the right epaulette, indicating a captain of under three years' seniority. The engraver has here added the left epaulette, since Shortland was a senior captain by the time he died of wounds at Basseterre in the West Indies in January 1810. [PvdM 5/10]
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52227110" class="extiw" title="d:Q52227110"><span title="English engraver">Henry Richard Cook</span></a>
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