Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805)
Georges Keating (Ireland 1762 - London 1842)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1798
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Measurements
487 x 380 x 39 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1336309
Summary
Print; Mezzotint engraving - Portrait of Nelson of the Nile, right profile. By G Keating after H Singleton. Wearing naval uniform with right sleeve tucked into LH side of jacket. In small print under picture: ‘London Published Nov, 29.1798, by G. Keating, 18. Warwick Street, Golden Square.', ‘Painted by H. Singleton from the life in 1798.' And ‘Engraved by G. Keating’. Below that in larger type: 'The Right Hon. Horatio Baron Nelson of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe in the County of Norfolk. Rear Admiral of the Blue.' In glazed and lided frame.
Provenance
purchased from Wyndham Payne, Cheltenham, Glouscester, 6th February 1942, for £5.10s Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
Georges Keating (Ireland 1762 - London 1842), engraver (printmaker) Henry Singleton RA (London 1766 - London 1839), portrait painter