Catherine Nelson (1725–1767)

Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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This is a late nineteenth-century copy of a portrait by John Theodore Heins of Nelson's mother when she was 18, just before she met and married the Reverend Edmund Nelson, rector of a Norfolk congregation. A woman of firm character, she bore him 11 children, but her health was not strong. She died aged 42 when her son Horatio was nine, leaving him and his two elder and two younger brothers, and three sisters, to be brought up by their widowed father.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

Catherine Nelson (1725–1767)

Date

late 19th C–early 20th C

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 76 x W 63.5 cm

Accession number

BHC2879

Work type

Painting

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