page_title: Lemuel Francis Abbott
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Lemuel Francis Abbott / Works
caption_attribution_description: English&#58; A circa 1790s portrait of Henry Callender standing full-length in a landscape in the attire of Captain General of the Blackheath Golf Club, holding a wooden headed spoon with a metal headed blade putter by his side.
context_page_description: Lemuel "Francis" Abbott was an English portrait painter, famous for his painting of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson and for those of other naval officers and literary figures of the 18th century.
context_section_description: Abbott painted portraits of many figures of the day. His 1797 portrait of Horatio Nelson was commenced during a period where both men were living in the same lodgings in London's Bond Street. The finished work won the approval of both Nelson and his wife, with lady Nelson writing that "[T]he likeliness is great; I am well pleased with Abbott." While the Nelson portrait was Abbott's most famous work, other subjects of the period included Admiral Sir Robert Calder, Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley and Captain William Locker, astronomer Sir William Herschel, poet William Cowper, artists Francesco Bartolozzi and Joseph Nollekens, entrepreneur Matthew Boulton and industrialist John Wilkinson.
  His portrait of Henry Callender, Captain General of the Royal Blackheath Golf Club, is one of the earliest portrayals of the game of golf. Reproductions hang in golf clubs the world over. It was sold at Bonhams in London on  9 December 2015.
  Some of his paintings were signed "Francis Lemuel Abbott", but it is not known why he assumed the additional Christian name, as it was not one with which he was baptised.
  Other famous paintings include, that off one addressed as follows:
  To the society of goffers at Blackheath this plate is with just respect Dedicated by their most humble servant, Lemuel Francis Abbott
  It is signed painted by L.F.Abbott 1790.
  It is reported to be that of a Captain William Innes and a pensioner.
  Captain Innes was as the story goes, an avid fan of the society of goffers.
caption: Portrait of Henry Callender standing full-length in a landscape in the attire of Captain General of the Blackheath Golf Club, between 1790 and 1798.
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