Only Connect - Horatio Nelson <> Emma Hamilton
How are these sitters connected?
Horatio Nelson
by Henry Edridge
1802
NPG 879
Emma Hamilton
by Richard Cosway
circa 1801
NPG 2941
The connection
Horatio Nelson’s adulterous romance with Emma Hamilton was a public scandal. Soon after his death at the Battle of Trafalgar, souvenir porcelain was on sale featuring them both.
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