File:Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, Viscount Nelson RMG BHC2892.tiff

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William Beechey: Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, Viscount Nelson  wikidata:Q50868228 reasonator:Q50868228
Artist
William Beechey  (1753–1839)  wikidata:Q48566
 
William Beechey
Description British portrait painter
Date of birth/death 12 December 1753 Edit this at Wikidata 28 January 1839 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death England London Edit this at Wikidata
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England Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q48566
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Author
Sir William Beechey
Title
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, Viscount Nelson Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, Viscount Nelson Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805, Viscount Nelson Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
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'.

Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson.
Depicted people Horatio Nelson Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1801
date QS:P571,+1801-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions Frame: 540 mm x 485 mm x 75 mm;Overall: 3.8 kg;Painting: 406 x 337 mm
institution QS:P195,Q7374509
Current location
Royal Museums Greenwich
Accession number
BHC2892
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Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14365
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Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH183
Loan File Number: Y2000.023
file number: 4G10.031
id number: BHC2892
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Oil paintings

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