[1] It depicts the British explorer and Royal Navy officer James Cook.

Dance-Holland spent many years in Italy before returning to Britain to become a leading portrait painter.

[4] Cook is portrayed wearing the dress uniform of a captain and holds his own map of the Southern Ocean with his hand pointing to the eastern coast of Australia.

Today the painting is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

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