© National Maritime Museum
Greenwich Hospital
Samuel Scott
- Art Funded
- 1945
- Dimensions
- 46 x 61 cm
- Presented by
- A D Power through The Art Fund
Greenwich Hospital from the North.
Signed: S Scott.
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
Venetian Boats Reflected in a Calm Sea
Acquired 1960
Two Nelson Relics
Acquired 1930
The Parting Cheer
Acquired 2004
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
Silver cup
Acquired 1941
Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson
Acquired 1941
Portrait of Elizabeth of Bohemia
Acquired 1991
Pair of candlesticks
Acquired 1974
Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
Acquired 2012
Mortlake Tapestry of the Battle of Solebay, 1672
Acquired 1968
Marine chronometer
Acquired 2001
Landing of Captain Cook at Middleburg, Friendly Islands
Acquired 1962
HMS Duncan at Mahon
Acquired 1967
Greenwich Palace from the North-East, with a Man-o'-War
Acquired 1985
Greenwich Hospital
Acquired 1945
Eddystone Lighthouse
Acquired 2000
Collection of five wax medallions
Acquired 1964
Collection of 79 marine paintings
Acquired 1963
Collection of 10 watercolours
Acquired 1962
Astronomical chronometer
Acquired 1998
Admiral Vernon medals
Acquired 1949
A Swim-Headed Barge
Acquired 1960
A set of lithographs
Acquired 1948
3 paintings of HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery
Acquired 1962
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.
Exhibitions at National Maritime Museum
Canaletto's Venice Revisited
- National Maritime Museum, London
- Until 24 September 2022
50% off exhibitions