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Two Hour Sketch: Nelson

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Done August, 2015.  The ref. painting was unfinished.  Drew this in a gallery.

Lord Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson. Just had to wear his medals at Trafalgar, where he got himself killed. Commanded battle while dying, which took three hours. Cult hero, even before his death.

His tactics were far more daring and aggressive than most commanders of his time (check out the Battle of the Nile, where he initiated a three-pronged demolition of French and Spanish forces without waiting for reinforcements),  but he was as famous for his adulterous affair with the beautiful Emma Hamilton as he was for his exploits against Napoleon's forces.  He had one daughter.  Lady Hamilton fled to Paris after his death, but died there in poverty ten years later. The debtors were after Horatia who disguised herself as a boy and travelled all the way back to England to Horatio's sisters, who took her in. Her father had acknowledged her in his will.  She ended up marrying a clergyman. Ironic, given that Horatio's father too was a clergyman. She donated the coat her father died in to the Maritime Museum.
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