File:Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, Viscount Nelson RMG BHC2892.tiff
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Summary
William Beechey: Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, Viscount Nelson
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| Author |
Sir William Beechey |
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| Title |
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, Viscount Nelson  |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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portrait |
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| Description |
English: Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, Viscount Nelson A head-and-shoulders sketch facing right. The head is a sketch for a full-length portrait which is in St Andrew's Hall, Norwich. The portrait was painted after Copenhagen in 1801, when Nelson destroyed the Danish fleet and with it the Armed Neutrality of northern powers, engineered against Britan by Tsar Paul of Russia, who was himself assassinated just after the battle. The artist trained as a lawyer before entering the Royal Academy Schools, London, in 1772 where he may have studied with Johan Zoffany. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1776 and throughout his career he produced competent portraits since he had no shortage of clients throughout his long career. In 1793 he was named portrait painter to Queen Charlotte, and undertook a number of royal commissions. His straightforward style perfectly suited the stolid and conventional taste of the royal family. In 1795 John Opie described Beechey's pictures as 'of that mediocre quality as to taste & fashion, that they seemed only fit for sea Captains & merchants'. |
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| Depicted people |
Horatio Nelson |
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| Date | 1801 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium |
oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Frame: 540 mm x 485 mm x 75 mm;Overall: 3.8 kg;Painting: 406 x 337 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
BHC2892 |
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14365 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH183 Loan File Number: Y2000.023 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC2892 |
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| Collection | Oil paintings | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| current | 04:30, 8 October 2017 |  | 5,223 × 6,000 (89.66 MB) | Fæ | Royal Museums Greenwich Oil paintings (1801), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14365 #2784 |
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