Portrait of Abel Chapman, three-quarter-length, seated, in a brown coat and red velvet waistcoat, with his left hand resting beside some documents addressed to 'Abel Chapman Esquire, London Assurance Corporation, Royal Exchange'

A successful merchant and owner of East Indiamen ships, Abel Chapman was a Director of the London Assurance Corporation from 1795. The present portrait was originally commissioned for St. Thomas's Hospital, where Chapman was Treasurer for forty-three years.

Andrew Morton was a portrait painter whose style has often been likened to that to Sir Thomas Lawrence. He studied at the Royal Academy and exhibited there between 1821 and 1845.