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A full-length portrait to left seated at a table. He wears a captain's uniform (over three years), of 1767–1774, and a white wig and buckled shoes. His left hand is on his knee and his right rests on a chart on the table. Also on the table is a pair of dividers, a globe, a paper knife and a book. In the right background on the wall is a painting of a ship off the Cape of Good Hope. Affleck spent his early sea training in the service of the Honourable East India Company before transferring to the Royal Navy. He became a lieutenant rather late in 1755. Boscawen made him a commander during the taking of Louisbourg in 1758 and, after following the admiral to the Mediterranean, he was made a captain after the Battle of Lagos in the following year.
Penny was a pupil of Hudson and later travelled in Rome. He was the chief rival to Zoffany in the small full-length and was the first Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy from 1768 to 1782, when he retired through ill health.
Title
Captain Philip Affleck (after 1725–1799)
Date
1767–1774
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 94 x W 66 cm
Accession number
BHC2505
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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