Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Whitehall

Interpretation about this artwork is under review

The Government Art Collection recognises its responsibility to artists, colleagues and all our audiences to represent the diversity of the UK and to embed anti-racist and equitable practices throughout our work. We are taking action to address inequality in the Collection and its interpretation.

William A. Menzies worked as a copyist, making numerous accurate reproductions of works by other artists. In total there are six copies by Menzies in the Government Art Collection, all of which were painted between 1910 and 1918.

People

Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson

Places

Subjects

male portrait, man, 19th century costume, military uniform, stockings, breeches, riband, epaulettes, ribbon (as Subject - costume accessory), shoe, medal, Order of the Bath, Viscount, vice admiral, sword, ship

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

John, (After) Hoppner (1758 - 1810)
William A Menzies

Title

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758-1805) Vice-Admiral & Victor of Trafalgar

Date

1910

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 230.00 cm, width: 144.50 cm

Acquisition

Presented by William Lockett Agnew, 1910

GAC number

0/18