Only Connect - William Hamilton <> Wolfgang Mozart
How are these sitters connected?
A Cognocenti contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique (Emma Hamilton; Horatio Nelson; Sir William Hamilton)
by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey
published 11 February 1801
NPG D35272
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Friedrich Theodor Müller, after Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt
early 19th century
NPG D13753
The connection
In 1770 Pietro Fabris drew Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart playing chamber music with William Hamilton in Lord Fortrose’s salon in Naples.
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