Portrait of the Duke of York is a 1764 portrait painting by the Italian artist Pompeo Batoni depicting Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany.
[2] From 1763 to 1764 following the end of the Seven Years' War, York went on a Grand Tour around Continental Europe.
[3] While in Rome he sat for Batoni, a leading portraitist who specialised in painting visiting Britons.
York is shown in the uniform of a Flag officer of the Royal Navy and the Order of the Garter, with the Colosseum visible behind him.
[4] York gave the painting to Horace Mann, the British ambassador in Florence.