Viscount Samuel Hood (1724-1816)<br><p>A full-length portrait to the left, showing Hood in his flag officer’s full dress uniform, 1767–83 pattern, wearing a white toupee and holding a telescope in his left hand. This is an enlarged copy of the Gainsborough in the Ironmongers’ Hall, which was a present from Hood on being admitted to the Company. It was presented to Greenwich Hospital by the Ironmongers’ Company in 1825.
Note: not mentioned under Gainsborough in NMM 'Concise Catalogue'.<br></p>
Record Shot - Do not reproduce.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18508414" class="extiw" title="d:Q18508414"><span title="English artist">John Wood</span></a>
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