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A full-length, full face portrait of Horatia wearing a white dress, red pumps and wearing a miniature of her father round her neck. She is dancing in a rocky foreground with an imaginary landscape in the distance, a tambourine held high in her left hand and her gaze directly engaging the viewer. The coastal scene with mountains and smoke from a volcano on the right, may be intended to represent the Bay of Naples by an artist who had never visited it. It is possible that the portrait was commissioned by Horatia’s mother, Emma, since the pose closely relates to a portrait of her by the French painter Elisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun. This showed Emma as a Bacchante, in which she also dances holding a tambourine, with the smoke from Mount Vesuvius rising in the background.
Title
Horatia Nelson (1801–1881)
Date
c.1815
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 195.6 x W 127 cm
Accession number
BHC2886
Work type
Painting
National Maritime Museum
Romney Road, Greenwich, London, Greater London SE10 9NF England
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