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Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758–1805), 1st Viscount Nelson

Photo credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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This half-length portrait shows Nelson in rear-admiral's undress uniform, 1795–1812 pattern, wearing the Saint Vincent medal and the star of a KB. The empty right sleeve is pinned across, and the upper part slit and closed with ribbons, to accommodate the wound dressing from Nelson's loss of his right arm at Santa Cruz in July 1797. This is the second of many replica portraits of Nelson made by Abbott, all based on the only oil study of him that the artist made from life. That was done after July 1797, while Nelson was painfully recovering from the loss of his right arm, and staying with his old commander Captain William Locker, by this time Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. Nelson gave Abbot two sittings there and the resulting oil study, known as the 'Kilgraston sketch' from its later ownership by Francis Grant of Kilgraston, is now in the British portraits collection at Compton Verney, Warwickshire.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758–1805), 1st Viscount Nelson

Date

1798

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 76.2 x W 63.5 cm

Accession number

BHC2887

Acquisition method

National Maritime Museum (Greenwich Hospital Collection)

Work type

Painting

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