Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson
Lemuel Francis Abbott
- Art Funded
- 1941
- Dimensions
- 76 x 63 cm
- Vendor
- Mr & Miss Morris
Half-length portrait of Lord Nelson (1758-1805) made from a sketch the artist did while Nelson was at the Royal Hospital Greenwich.
Therefore one of the few genuine likenesses.
Provenance
Purchased by Huson Morris about twenty years after the death of Nelson.