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HORATIO, VISCOUNT NELSON (1758-1805)
Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Alexander Davison, St George, 'Naze of Norway N West 12 L[ea]g[ue]s', 18 March 1801, including a receipt in a different hand on verso, one page, oblong 8vo (torn at upper edge from a larger leaf).
Provenance: Alexander Davidson Collection; Sotheby's sale, 21 October 2002 (lot 50).
NELSON SECURES HIS FAVOURITE PORTRAIT OF LADY HAMILTON
A formal request for Davison 'to pay Mr Christie three hundred pounds for me for a picture', endorsed on verso, 'April 6th 1801/Rec'd Wm Stalker for Mr Christie.' The picture was Madame Vigée-Le Brun's depiction of a diaphanously clad Emma, known as 'Lady Hamilton as a Recumbent Bacchante' but referred to by the artist as 'Madame Hart qui est amie du ministre D'angleterre' as Ariadne (Joseph Baillio. Elizabeth Louise Vigée le Brun, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1982). Painted in 1790, it shows her posing coquettishly against a tiger skin on the shore with a ship on the horizon and had been one of fourteen portraits of her in the Palazzo Sessa at Naples. Sir William Hamilton's pictures were to be sold at Christie's on 27/28 March 1801, to help to defray his substantial debts, and Nelson could not endure the thought of it falling into other hands. He had referred to it to Emma in a letter from Yarmouth on 7 March 1801 ('Shall I offer Sir William a sum of money for Madam le Bruns picture of you [?]', see lot 19), and four days later, 'Pray what has Christie done about your picture' (autograph letter now in Christie's archives). He succeeded in purchasing it privately from James Christie, referring to the payment both in the present document and in a letter to Davison written the next day ('but do you not notice it to anybody for I could not bear the thought of Sir William's selling his wife's picture'), asking him to take delivery of it 'packed up' so as not to cause comment (Nicolas, VII, cciii). Nelson wrote to Emma on 19 March that he desired it always to hang in his bedchamber. The portrait was sold again as lot 32 in Christie's sale of the contents of Merton Place on 8-10 June 1809 and has since been in a private collection.
Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Alexander Davison, St George, 'Naze of Norway N West 12 L[ea]g[ue]s', 18 March 1801, including a receipt in a different hand on verso, one page, oblong 8vo (torn at upper edge from a larger leaf).
Provenance: Alexander Davidson Collection; Sotheby's sale, 21 October 2002 (lot 50).
NELSON SECURES HIS FAVOURITE PORTRAIT OF LADY HAMILTON
A formal request for Davison 'to pay Mr Christie three hundred pounds for me for a picture', endorsed on verso, 'April 6th 1801/Rec'd Wm Stalker for Mr Christie.' The picture was Madame Vigée-Le Brun's depiction of a diaphanously clad Emma, known as 'Lady Hamilton as a Recumbent Bacchante' but referred to by the artist as 'Madame Hart qui est amie du ministre D'angleterre' as Ariadne (Joseph Baillio. Elizabeth Louise Vigée le Brun, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1982). Painted in 1790, it shows her posing coquettishly against a tiger skin on the shore with a ship on the horizon and had been one of fourteen portraits of her in the Palazzo Sessa at Naples. Sir William Hamilton's pictures were to be sold at Christie's on 27/28 March 1801, to help to defray his substantial debts, and Nelson could not endure the thought of it falling into other hands. He had referred to it to Emma in a letter from Yarmouth on 7 March 1801 ('Shall I offer Sir William a sum of money for Madam le Bruns picture of you [?]', see lot 19), and four days later, 'Pray what has Christie done about your picture' (autograph letter now in Christie's archives). He succeeded in purchasing it privately from James Christie, referring to the payment both in the present document and in a letter to Davison written the next day ('but do you not notice it to anybody for I could not bear the thought of Sir William's selling his wife's picture'), asking him to take delivery of it 'packed up' so as not to cause comment (Nicolas, VII, cciii). Nelson wrote to Emma on 19 March that he desired it always to hang in his bedchamber. The portrait was sold again as lot 32 in Christie's sale of the contents of Merton Place on 8-10 June 1809 and has since been in a private collection.
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