This silhouette portrait, dated 1781, is of Captain John Paul Jones.
Royal Navy - Framed silhouette on glass, of Captain John Paul Jones, 1781
John Paul Jones, known as the 'founder of the American Navy', was born in 1747 at Arbigland, near Kirkbean in Kirkcudbrightshire. He went to sea at the age of 12 and later settled in Virginia in 1774.
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