Portrait of Sir Edward Pellew is a portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Lawrence of the British naval officer Sir Edward Pellew, produced around 1797.
At the time Lawrence painted him Pellew had become known for his command of frigate HMS Indefatigable and it may commemorate a 1797 action fought against the much larger French ship Droits de l'Homme which was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of Brittany.
[3] Pellew won popular acclaim for the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816, a campaign to end the slavery practiced in North Africa.
Lawrence was an established young portrait painter and later became President of the Royal Academy.
It is part of the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. This article about a nineteenth-century painting is a stub.