Keywords: Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson.jpg Artwork attributed to Matthew Shepperson en A full-length portrait slightly to left in a rear-admiral ™s full dress uniform 1795 “1812 but with vice-admiral ™s epaulettes He wears the star and ribbon of the order of the Bath and the St Vincent and Nile medals Nelson ™s empty right sleeve is pinned across his coat and he leans on a rock with his left hand on the right of the picture His right foot rests on a small boulder In the background on the left the battle of Copenhagen rages The original portrait by John Hoppner was bought for the Royal Collection after it hung in the Royal Academy in 1802 Although it was completed after the Battle of Copenhagen in April 1801 Hoppner probably began it between 8 November 1800 and 1 January However he did not change the uniform to the correct rank of vice-admiral when he painted the background since Nelson became a vice-admiral in January 1801 and the painting was not delivered to St James ™s Palace until after Hoppner ™s death in 1810 This version one of eleven similar copies was presented to Greenwich Hospital by George IV in 1824 c 1823-1824 Oil on canvas cm 239 147 5 Institution NMM http //www nmm ac uk/collections/images/560/BHC/28/BHC2898 jpg http //collections rmg co uk/collections/objects/14371 html collections rmg co uk other versions PD-old-100 FAL DEFAULTSORT 1823-1824; Horatio Nelson Portrait paintings of Horatio Nelson 19th-century portrait paintings in the National Maritime Museum London 1820s oil on canvas paintings in the United Kingdom Portrait 1820s portrait paintings Male 19th-century oil portraits of standing men at full length wearing military uniforms Breeches in art Copies of portrait paintings Male shoes in portrait paintings Marine portraits People with decorations orders in art Portrait paintings of men with swords Portraits of men in naval uniforms of the United Kingdom Posthumous portraits Sash of the Order of the Bath in portrait paintings |