Only Connect - Richard Cosway <> Horatio Nelson
How are these sitters connected?
Richard Cosway
after Richard Cosway
based on a work of circa 1790
NPG 1678
Horatio Nelson
by Henry Edridge
1802
NPG 879
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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