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Frank Edward Fell - "Frank Fells: Rear-Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson 1758-1805"
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Magnificent Naval Portrait by Frank Fell.
The inspirational "Abbot" was not Painted from life, but was commissioned in 1800 by John McArthur,
and although the Abbot is regarded as an excellent if not flattering portrait of Nelson, described:
"A half-length portrait depicting Horatio Nelson when a rear-admiral, facing forward with his head turned to the left, wearing rear-admiral's undress of 1795-1812 pattern,"however some of the now known historically correct features are either missing or incorrect and Fell has now re-interpreted the portrait and corrected many. Unavoidably even he has taken some artistic license in order to create an attractive composition, namely that Nelson’s head wound meant that he could only wear his hat tipped back off his forehead and even Fell decided that the Admiral disserved a little help to look impressive. Abbot's main discrepancy was his interpretation of the distinctive diamond "Chelengk "
given to Nelson by the Sultan of The Ottoman Empire after the Battle of the Nile in 1798.In the Abbot "The Chelengk" is shown as a simple Six point Hat Decoration as Abbot did not see the original much more elaborate Decoration, a diamond-encrusted jewel with a hidden clockwork mechanism that made its 13 sparkling fronds quiver, much to the amusement of Nelsons colleagues at the time. It is believed that due to the embarrassment and jibes that Nelson endured from his fellow officers, he sent the Chelengk to be trimmed down and some of the Diamonds were removed to make a broach for his beloved Emma.
After Nelson's death it first went to Nelson's Brother William, and having survived a burglary at his home it was finally stolen from the National Maritime Museum in 1951 and never recovered,
Forty years later a former cat-burglar was said to have admitted the theft and claimed he had broken it up to sell.
Luckily an early photograph exists and with the help of a reputed Nelson Expert, Fell has recreated the original Chelengk as it would have appeared if Nelson had sat for the portrait himself.
This Painting will be immediately recognized as an exceptional, rare treasure by anyone who has an interest in Nelson, or Naval History, and guaranteed to appeal to the Naval Art Connoisseur.
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