Charles Lennox (1764–1819), 4th Duke of Richmond

Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond from around 1784 by John Hoppner depicts the military commander and colonial administrator who served as Governor General of British North America. The duke's portrait reflects the intersection of military, political, and aristocratic life in late Georgian Britain. Characteristic of the artist's mature approach, the work displays fluent, confident brushwork in the tradition of Reynolds, with a warm atmospheric palette and a gift for flattering likenesses that retained individual character.

The aristocratic-military portrait renders the duke with Hoppner's characteristic painterly breadth, combining formal dignity with the atmospheric quality that distinguished his work from more polished contemporaries.