Only Connect - Joseph Haydn <> Emma Hamilton
How are these sitters connected?
Joseph Haydn
by William Daniell, after George Dance
published 1 July 1809 (20 March 1794)
NPG D12137
Emma Hamilton
by Richard Cosway
circa 1801
NPG 2941
The connection
Horatio Nelson and William and Emma Hamilton met the composer Franz Joseph Haydn in 1801. Nelson gave Haydn a watch, and Haydn gave him a pen – both tools of their trades.
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