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Horatio Nelson drawn by Cuthbert Collingwood when both were serving in the West Indies

© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London | CC BY-NC-ND

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Date

probably 1784-1785

Artist

Cuthbert Collingwood, Vice-Admiral (1750-1810)

Collection

Royal Museums Greenwich

Image Link

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-202685

Description

Nelson and Collingwood exchanged portraits when, as young captains and probably in late 1784, they met on Antigua at Commissioner Moutray’s house. Mrs Mary Moutray later recalled, ‘Nelson had lost his hair from fever, and its place had been so grotesquely supplied by the art of the West Indian perruquier, that Captain Collingwood said to him one day, ‘I must draw you, Nelson, in that wig.’ He accordingly made a coloured drawing which bears much resemblance to the later pictures of the hero’.

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CC BY-NC-ND

Image Credit

© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

Location

Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda

Country

Antigua and Barbuda

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Portraits

Category

People & Society

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