File:Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805 RMG BHC2889.tiff
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Lemuel Francis Abbott: Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805
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Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Description |
English: Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805 A half-length portrait depicting Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, when a rear-admiral, facing forward with his head turned to the left. He wears rear-admiral's undress of 1795-1812 pattern, with gold epaulettes, the Nile decorations, and in his hat the distinctive diamond chelengk given to him by the Sultan of Turkey. On his jacket he wears the star of a KB, granted to him on 27 September 1797, together with the Neapolitan Order of St Ferdinand and of Merit, and the Turkish Order of the Crescent. His empty right sleeve is pinned across the front of his coat by the star of his KB, a reminder that he lost his right arm at Santa Cruz, in July 1797. This portrait was not painted from life but was commissioned in about 1799 by John McArthur, Nelson's biographer, in Nelson's absence abroad. It was to illustrate a short memoir of Nelson published in the 'Naval Chronicle' (Vol. III, 1800, pp. 157-191), of which McArthur was editor, and in which it was reproduced as a stipple engraving by Piercy Roberts. It is based on a study made by Abbot at Greenwich Hospital in 1797, while Nelson was convalescing from the loss of his arm and staying there with his former captain, the Lieutenant-Governor, William Locker. This is shown by the ribbons on his slit upper right sleeve, which at that time helped accommodate the dressing on the stump of his arm, but were removed from his uniforms once the wound had healed. Nelson was a rear-admiral from 20 February 1797 to his promotion to vice-admiral on 1 June 1801. This painting, with others by Richard Westall and Benjamin West, engraved in Clarke and McArthur's 1809 biography of Nelson, form a group presented to Greenwich Hospital by Jasper de St Croix and others in 1849. See also BHC2887 and BHC2888. |
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| Date | 1799 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dimensions | Painting: 762 mm x 635 mm; Frame: 955 mm x 825 mm x 75 mm; Overall: 19.6 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||
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BHC2889 |
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| Notes | Battle of the Nile Sultan of Turkey. Granted KB on 27th September 1797, together with the Neapolitan Order of St Ferdinand and of Merit, and the Turkish Order of the Crescent. Nelson lost his right arm at Santa Cruz, in July 1797. This portrait was not painted from life but was commissioned in 1800 by John McArthur, Nelson's biographer, in Nelson's absence abroad. Nelson was a rear-admiral from 20th February 1797 to his promotion to vice-admiral 1st June 1801. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14362 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH161 Loan File Number: Y2000.023 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC2889 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||||
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