Portrait of George Cockburn is an 1817 portrait painting by the English artist John James Halls depicting Sir George Cockburn, a British admiral of the Royal Navy.
He later escorted to the defeat French Emperor Napoleon into his exile on the island of Saint Helena.
[3] He is shown at full-length in the dress uniform of a Rear admiral, with the Burning of the Capitol, Treasury and other public buildings in Washington as a backdrop.
Today the painting is part of the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
[5] Three years later William Beechey produced his own Portrait of George Cockburn, now also in the National Maritime Museum.