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A half-length portrait to left in a white, bloodstained shirt open at the neck. He wears the St Vincent medal on a white and blue ribbon around his neck. His left hand is across his chest. He wears a bloodstained white bandage around his head and there is blood on his right shoulder. His hair is brown tinged with white. In the left background is the Battle of the Nile with rigging on the right and the rail of a ship implied on the left. The painting represents the moment when the French flagship 'L'Orient' blew up. Nelson had received a severe wound in the head from a piece of langridge, rough metal fired as shot. The surgeons were dressing this below when, hearing that a ship was on fire, he ran back up on deck. The portrait is believed to have been owned by Nelson.
Title
Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758–1805)
Date
c.1800
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 83.9 x W 64.8 cm
Accession number
BHC2903
Acquisition method
National Maritime Museum (Greenwich Hospital Collection)
Work type
Painting
