The Right Honble Lord Robert Manners

William Dickinson after Joshua Reynolds

The Right Honble Lord Robert Manners

London, W Dickinson July 1^st. 1783

Mezzotint

635 x 385 mm

£350

A fine, full length portrait of  Captain Robert Manners. The title continues; Captain of His Majesty’s Ship the Resolution April 12^th 1782

He stands fascing to the front and looking towards his left, in uniform, right hand on an anchor to his left,  his left hand on his hip. There are large ships in the distance to the right.

He was the Third son of John, Marquis of Granby, born 1758.

He entered the navy and was mortally wounded in the engagement under Rodney with the French fleet, under De Grasse, in the West Indies on 12^th. April 1782.