Title

Captain Horatio Nelson, 1777-1781, (19th century). Artist: Unknown

Caption

Captain Horatio Nelson, 1777-1781, (19th century). A portrait of Nelson (1758-1805) in captain's full-dress uniform,with his hands resting on his sheathed sword in front of him. Although the portrait was begun in 1777, when Nelson was a lieutenant, it was not finished until 1781 when he had returned to England as a captain. One of Britain's greatest military figures, Admiral Nelson was the victor at a number of naval battles in the Napoleonic Wars, including the Battle of the Nile (1798), Copenhagen (1801) and most famously, Trafalgar (1805) where he was fatally wounded.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1800

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C08_379

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,1Mb) / 11,8in x 16,4in / 3550 x 4922 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male man men hat guy clothes British weapon weapons uniform dress war century sword Britain swords concept Navy admiralty hero B&W captain sailor MONOCHROME heroic warfare sailors commander heroism naval warfare 19th century black & white black and white B W weaponry 18th century admiral Eighteenth Century lieutenant nineteenth century The Print Collector Napoleonic Wars viscount Horatio Nelson portrait Unknown Nelson Horatio Lord Nelson Viscount Nelson Admiral Nelson John Francis John Francis Rigaud Rigaud John Francis Rigaud portrait