This portrait of George Hammond is one of five miniatures painted by John Trumbull in preparation for The Treaty of Peace, an unexecuted painting commemorating the 1783 accord signed in Paris that ended the Revolutionary War. Shortly after publicly announcing his plans for the subject in 1790, Trumbull began to take portraits of the prominent figures involved in the negotiations: Henry Laurens, John Jay, and John Adams, the three American peace commissioners deputized by Congress, as well as William Temple Franklin, the grandson of Benjamin Franklin and secretary to the American delegation at the treaty talks, and George Hammond, who served as the secretary to the British delegation. Trumbull painted Hammond's likeness in Philadelphia while the latter was in America, serving as first minister of Great Britain to the United States.