(Those for later actions had a neck loop of the same blue-and-white ribbon used for the captain's medal.) Given that patterns of naval uniform also changed from 1st June 1795, this suggests that Abbott completed most of the portrait, including the chain, early in that year, and added the medal itself later but before it was engraved as a mezzotint (published February 1797). Pasley's fighting career had begun as a lieutenant in the Seven Years War and continued through the War of American Independence. He was Commodore in the Medway in 1788 and was promoted to Rear-Admiral in April 1794. In 1798 he became Commander-in-Chief at the Nore and in 1799 at Plymouth, which was his last service. The Museum also has a miniature of him by Horace Hone, probably copied from this oil painting: both are fairly rare images of the chained medal, though there are many of officers who later received them on ribbon, notably Nelson. There is also a fine caricature by Rowlandson showing Pasley in one of his last shore-based roles, as 'The Tough Old Commodore'.