Supporting museums Art we've helped buy Greenwich Hospital

Art we’ve helped buy at National Maritime Museum

Ship of Fools
 Acquired
Early Experimental Marine Timekeeper c. 1660
 Acquired 2015
Year-going regulator (Pendulum clock)
 Acquired 1994
Works depicting the action between HMS Santa Margherita and the French Ship Amazone
 Acquired 1947
View of Port Lincoln South Coast of Australia
 Acquired 1962
Venetian Boats Reflected in a Calm Sea
 Acquired 1960
Two panorama drawings of maritime scenes
 Acquired 1947
Two Nelson Relics
 Acquired 1930
Two coloured engravings of the Battle of the Nile
 Acquired 1940
The Victory with George III on Board Firing a Salute in Portsmouth Harbour After the Battle of Trafalgar
 Acquired 1994
The Toopapaoo of a Chief, with a Priest Making his Offering to the Morai & A Canoe at Ulaietea in the Society Islands
 Acquired 1962
The Parting Cheer
 Acquired 2004
The Nelson on the Stocks, Building at Woolwich in the Year 1814
 Acquired 1939
The Chelengk
 Acquired 1929
The British Fleet at Anchor off St Lucia, 1778
 Acquired 2001
The Boatbuilder's Yard, Cancale, Brittany
 Acquired 1987
The Battle of Texel, 11-21 August 1673
 Acquired 1952
The Battle of Alma
 Acquired 1948
The 'Royal Prince' and Other Vessels at the Four Days' Flight, 1-4 June 1666
 Acquired 1948
Tea caddy
 Acquired 1929
Study for a portrait of Admiral George Churchill
 Acquired 1928
Silver cup
 Acquired 1941
Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson
 Acquired 1941
Portrait of Elizabeth of Bohemia
 Acquired 1991
Portrait bust of Lord Nelson
 Acquired 1970
Pair of candlesticks
 Acquired 1974
Objet d'Art toothpick case given to Lord Nelson by Lady Nelson
 Acquired 1947
Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
 Acquired 2012
Mortlake Tapestry of the Battle of Solebay, 1672
 Acquired 1968
Marine chronometer
 Acquired 2001
Lord Bridport's Action off L'Orient at the Close of the Action
 Acquired 1949
Landing of Captain Cook at Middleburg, Friendly Islands
 Acquired 1962
i) The Kongouro from New Holland; ii) Portrait of a Large Dog
 Acquired 2013
HMS Duncan at Mahon
 Acquired 1967
Greenwich Palace from the North-East, with a Man-o'-War
 Acquired 1985
Greenwich Hospital
 Acquired 1945
Engravings of maritime subjects
 Acquired 1940
Eddystone Lighthouse
 Acquired 2000
Design for a naval certificate
 Acquired 1994
Collection of five wax medallions
 Acquired 1964
Collection of eight sheets of drawings for Anson's Voyage
 Acquired 1962
Collection of 79 marine paintings
 Acquired 1963
Collection of 10 watercolours
 Acquired 1962
Astronomical chronometer
 Acquired 1998
An English Flagship and Other Vessels Becalmed at Sun Down
 Acquired 1946
Admiral Vernon medals
 Acquired 1949
A Tjalk Close-Hauled and a Hoogaars Leaving a Harbour
 Acquired 1948
A Swim-Headed Barge
 Acquired 1960
A set of lithographs
 Acquired 1948
3 paintings of HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery
 Acquired 1962
1) HMS Endymion; 2) HMS Jumna; 3) Yachts Fleet Wing and Vanessa; 4) HMS Endymion rounding Cape Horn
 Acquired 1939

Henry Nelson O'Neil's The Parting Cheer is a crowded scene depicting a ship crammed with emigrants leaving from a London quayside, focusing on the reactions of the grieving friends and families left behind on the shore.

The Art Fund has helped with the acquisition of various images and objects associated with Nelson – a purse, a tea caddy, a toothpick case. Two of the most splendid are a portrait of the Vice-Admiral by Lemuel Francis Abbott, based on a sketch done while Nelson was at Greenwich, and Yinka Shonibare's Fourth Plinth sculpture Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, which has a permanent home outside the museum's Sammy Ofer Wing thanks to our fundraising campaign.

Read more
Read less


Exhibitions at National Maritime Museum

The Moon

Back to top