Lot 92: Andrew Morton (1802-1845)

Portrait of Abel Chapman, three-quarter-length, seated, in a brown coat and red velvet waistcoat, with his left hand resting beside some documents addressed to 'Abel Chapman Esquire, London Assurance Corporation, Royal Exchange'
oil on canvas
56 x 44 in. (142.2 x 111.8 cm.)

London, Royal Academy, 1845, no. 133.

Commissioned for St. Thomas's Hospital, London.

A successful merchant and owner of East Indiamen ships, Abel Chapman was a Director of the London Assurance Corporation from 1795. The present portrait was originally commissioned for St. Thomas's Hospital, where Chapman was Treasurer for forty-three years.

Andrew Morton was a portrait painter whose style has often been likened to that to Sir Thomas Lawrence. He studied at the Royal Academy and exhibited there between 1821 and 1845.

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