Only Connect - Horatio Nelson <> Richard Cosway
How are these sitters connected?
Horatio Nelson
by Henry Edridge
1802
NPG 879
Richard Cosway
after Richard Cosway
based on a work of circa 1790
NPG 1678
The connection
Richard Cosway’s drawing of Emma Hamilton dates her from return from Italy in 1801, seven months pregnant, with Nelson’s child.
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