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Period: 18th century (4787)

Type: watercolour (2151)

Style: British (2582)

Subjects: Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805  (27)

Keywords
portraits (1315) | seamen (62) | seascapes (90) | ships and boats (514) | telescopes (15)

Horatio Nelson as a midshipman

1774

Fane, E. (British artist, active.18th century)

Watercolour on paper

height: 14.9 cm; width: 12.5 cm

Inscription
Signed, recto, lower right, E Fane
Titled, dated, recto, centre right, on spar of sail, HORATIO NELS. / midshipman 1774

Acquisition
Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir); bequest; 1952
D.1952.RW.4361

Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London