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Off the Wall is on! 2007-05-24 08:46:03 This summer’s exhibition at Artists Harbour is Off The Wall … an eclectic mix of mainly maritime-themed paintings and prints by artists from the local area and around the south of England.
It’s running from now until September and the pictures on show include beautiful seascapes by Chris Wood and huge yachts by rising young star Robin Eckardt.
Chris’s acrylic painting on canvas of Portsmouth’s famous Spinnaker Tower has been used for the exhibition poster. It’s the best painting we have seen to date of the iconic south coast landmark. You can see and buy the original or a print.
Robin sold 14 big pictures at a recent Affordable Art Fair in London and her latest works include billowing spinnakers and boiling wakes that look so 3D you feel you can touch the ridges of the waves – and you can!
Robin’s aggressive use of bright acrylic paints includes building up the texture of the image by mixing in plaster of paris and pva glue until the surface of the
Atlantic Reflections is on! 2007-03-27 08:45:05 REFLECTING ON THE ATLANTIC
If one geographical feature defines Britain more than any other it is the Atlantic Ocean - always both Britain’s fortress wall and its open road to the rest of the world - and with two notable Atlantic anniversaries in the air (25 years since the Falklands War, and 200 since the Royal Navy put down the Atlantic slave trade), the new exhibition at Artists Harbour Gallery in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is Atlantic Reflections
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The exhibition is one of our strongest line-ups of fine paintings and photography, by artists and photographers from the southeast as well as the Midlands, Devon and elsewhere.
The works range from vast and empty oil-painted seas to the trawlers who bring in the nation’s fish, from paintings of naval tugs and yachts boiling the sea with their speed to some stunning photos:
the mighty American warship USS New Jersey boiling the air with its fearsome broadside in a display of Atlantic alliance power, photographed in mid-ocean
Best dolphin picture ever taken? 2007-03-08 07:43:49 Is this the best dolphin picture ever taken? We guarantee it is a genuine photo with no digital enhancing or addition of the dolphins … this is how it was! The shot was taken at 4:16pm on June 28, 2002, (thank goodness for digital cameras, they store all that sort of information!) on a Nikon D1X camera with a Nikkor 500mm f8 mirror lens.
The once-in-a-lifetime photograph of 17 dolphins muscling in on the humans during a professional surfing competition was taken by John Pauling, a South African surfing photographer … he’s been surfing since 1965, and has worked as a professional photographer since 1973 (all his adult career). It is published by us at Artists Harbour as a photograph on glossy paper and as a poster on matte art paper.
This is what John says about how he got lucky and took the best surfing shot of his career:
“It was taken at a well known surf spot just south of Durban called Cave Rock during a surf contest called the Rip Curl Tube Masters. It&rs
Private View next week 2007-03-01 07:42:37 In The Water & Shopping Night
March 7th ~ from 4:30pm - 8:30pm
A 5% discount will apply to the artists’ original artwork and
prints.
A special 10% discount will apply on the purchase of all other full price items.
At the moment we also have several exceptional value reduced priced items on sale in the gallery.
If you would like to join our invitation list for events such as these, please email us at info@artistsharbour.com with the first and last names plus addresses of all the people who would like to come. Please also give us an email address and phone number for each of these people in case of late changes to any events.
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Special offer for Steven Dews fans! 2007-02-12 07:39:53 ONE-ONLY FRAMED PICTURE FOR JUST £1,299 ~ SAVE £171
If you are an afficionado of the world-famous maritime artist Steven
Dews you will be aware of his magnificent picture of the Battle of Trafalgar which when finished in 2005 sold for more than £90,000 at Bonham’s Auction in London.
After seven years of painstaking research and painting, a panel of maritime historians approved the accuracy of the fine detail in the 66-inch-wide x 40-inch-high oil painting. But despite its historical theme and great accuracy, the picture remains a bright, vivacious, outstanding and above all contemporary picture.
A limited edition of prints was published from the original, including a print at the same 66×40-inch size as the original picture.
We have one of these big limited-edition canvas prints magnificently framed in a stunning 3-inch-wide gold frame to sell at a discount of nearly 12% — £1,299 instead of the usual framed price of £1,470. That’s a saving of £171.
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In the Water is on! 2007-02-05 07:39:37 A monster of the deep rubs shoulders with a monster of the shallows in the latest art exhibition “In the Water” at Artists Harbour Gallery, the fine art gallery in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
The monster of the deep is the legendary RMS Titanic, captured close up through the lens of South Coast photographer Rob Goldsmith. In 2005 Rob was lucky enough to win a competition to dive down and photograph the final resting place of the “unsinkable” luxury liner that met a North Atlantic iceberg and took hundreds of passengers to their deaths on her maiden voyage in 1912. Rob has produced two stunning colour photo prints of the great barnacle-encrusted ship for Artists Harbour.
Pictures of swimmers nervously rub shoulders in the exhibition with a monster of the shallows, a fearsomely toothed 9ft. alligator with jaws like a steel trap … literally. Artist-blacksmith Steve Woodbridge made the impressive reptile from scrap steel. Steve is a member of The Guild of W
Shoreline Threads is on! 2006-12-15 07:37:43 The Shoreline Threads
exhibition at Artists Harbour running from December 11th 2006 to January 31st 2007 has been curated this year after last year’s successful textile exhibition Threads of Trafalgar and our last maritime exhibition Shorelines. The exhibition is a mix of work from emerging and established textile artists who are both local and national.
Traditionally textile groups in history were a way of women expressing their resistance and lack of power in society, however, the pieces in our show have a calm and tranquil feel to them. Indeed the work is made mainly by women who either run workshop groups or are part of textile groups, however, we have one male artist in the exhibition who has used materials associated with masculine fishing traditions.
Jonathan Polkest’s The Pettyfox in the Isles of Scilly and The PZ87 Rosebud are pieces made of textile and gesso with polyethylene (fishing line) thread. Jonathan states “I take objects and regenerate a contemporar
NEW EXCLUSIVE PHOTO! 2006-12-05 07:34:01 Discover the 1st panoramic photo to be taken from Portsmouth’s Spinnaker Tower. This digital photo montage of 1030mm x 125mm sees Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II aboard HMS Endurance sailing off Old Portsmouth to review the International Fleet at Trafalgar 200, June 28, 2005.
Available now mounted for £60 or as a print only for £45.
Contact us if you are interested in this picture.
A Victorian Festival of Christmas 2006-11-14 07:32:45 The delightful Christmas
aromas of mince pies and Portsmouth’s most luscious mulled wine will waft around our gallery and our outdoor artists’ market again this year at the seventh annual Festival
of Christmas in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, one of the South Coast’s most popular seasonal events.
The Festival returns reinvigorated and strengthened with a Victorian
costume theme featuring snow, carols, Father Christmas, music, lights and colour outside our gallery, and the usual beautiful art inside.
Artists Harbour’s contribution to this family voyage into Christmas past will be the artist’s market outside under cover in the colonnades with a range of artists and crafts people selling their work.
This is a chance to find a totally original Christmas gift.
> Admissions charges to Festival of Christmas
Market stalls still available! Contact us if you are interested!
When The Mary Rose Sank - Historic Tudor Picture Of The Battle Of The Solent 2007-06-01 07:16:26 ORIGINAL TITLE:
The Encampment of the English Forces Near Portsmouth, Together With a View of the English and French Fleets at the Commencement of the Action Between Them on the XIXth of July MDXLV (19th of July 1545)
OTHER NAMES:
The Cowdry Picture
The Cowdry Print
The Last Moments of the Mary Rose
This historic picture was originally painted in 1545 or just afterwards from eye-witness accounts – and was destroyed by fire in 1793. It shows the last man standing on the crow’s nest of the great Tudor
warship Mary Rose – the rest of the ship has disappeared as she sinks below the waves of the Solent.
This article describes the importance of the picture and the story of its preservation and re-publication by modern fine art printing technology. In a sense, the story of the picture modestly echoes the story of the modern technology that helped find, recapture and ultimately preserve the Mary Rose warship herself.
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New Peter Richardson Prints Available 2007-06-19 05:24:05 8 new prints from local artist PeterRichardson
are now available to buy from our webshop for £79.99. These new pictures include local views of Portsmouth Harbour with Ark Royal, Southsea Parade Pier, Southsea Marina at Low Tide or the well known Still and West pub in Old Portsmouth.
Peter has family ties in Southsea, so local subjects often appear in his work. He was born in India and brought up in the Channel Islands but ended up at Croydon School of Art before a career in advertising, publicity and marketing. He started work in industry but switched to the movie business with the Rank Organisation until retiring at 55. And all that time he spent many of his leisure hours painting, “with a bit of exhibiting and selling”.
He and his wife ran a picture framing and art gallery business in North Hampshire for 20 years but since 1998 he has been a full time artist, concentrating on landscapes and portraiture in all media, apart from considerable ongoing picture restoration wo
HMS Illustrious in Southsea 2007-06-23 05:42:28 HMS Illustrious, then flagship of the Royal Navy, sails out of Portsmouth Harbour into the Solent, off the coast of Southsea silhouetted against the afternoon sun of early summer, 2005.
In the centre of the coastline can be seen the outline of the rollercoaster at the Clarence Pier funfair and on the right the tower of Portsmouth’s historic Anglican Cathedral, St. Thomas’s.
Just above the tower Spitbank Fort juts out of the water, continuing its eternal vigilance against Napoleon III’s possible invasion.
Spitbank and the three other forts (also visible further out) were known as “Palmerston’s Follies” after the Newport Isle of Wight Member of Parliament who as British Prime Minister had them built between 1865 and 1880 as part of a chain of defences against the French, encircling Portsmouth by sea and land.
This picture is now available as a print for £34.99 or as a greeting card for £1.49 on our webshop.
Come and see us at the fair … (weather permitting!) 2007-06-28 06:56:45 Artists Harbour goes out on the road on Sunday, July 1st as part of the Southsea festivities in Portsmouth.
We will be exhibiting at the Southsea Art Fair in the Southsea town centre shopping precinct alongside many other stalls manned by local artists and other galleries.
If the forecast possible rain clears our stand in Palmerston Road will be outside Boots the Chemist. If it rains the Fair may still go on but our stand could be under awnings somewhere else in the precinct. Either way if it’s not rained off we will be there 9 am to mid-afternoon we will be displaying a wide range of local prints and local cards, many of which cannot be seen anywhere else, plus a range of other artworks, some at sale price.
Two fine local artists, Chris N. Wood and Maureen Flaherty, will be on our stand, painting new works and happy to discuss art with passers-by. Some of their existing paintings of Southsea and Old Portsmouth will also be on show.
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Royal Navy photos & DVD from Trafalgar 200 International Fleet Review (T200 IFR) 2007-07-05 10:17:34 EXCLUSIVE - Under Licence from the Ministry of Defence
Artists Harbour sells photographic and art paper prints of Royal
Navy photos
from the Trafalgar
200 InternationalFleet
Review (T200 IFR) plus the few remaining copies of the (all zones) DVD of the week’s events, including the brilliant fireworks in which 45 tons of high explosuives went up during the re-enactment of the Battle of Trafalgar!
Probably the biggest peacetime naval event the world will see throughout the whole of the 21st Century took place on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 in the Solent off Portsmouth, UK. A unique range of sea vessels filled the waters of the eastern Solent and aircraft and helicopters took part in thrilling fly-pasts.
The Royal Navy had invited 35 foreign navies and 24 maritime organisations from around the world to send a total of 105 warships and naval support ships plus 51 non-naval vessels to take part in friendship in the International Fleet Review to celebrate Trafalgar 200 ( T200 ) – 200 ye
Martin Leman prints 2007-07-12 10:21:40 Martin Leman is one of the world’s most prolific painters of cats - a subject he has made his own through countless exhibitions around the world, huge publishing successes and book sales of over half a million. He also has the rare achievement of receiving critical acclaim as well gaining mass popularity.
His work has been regularly exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Shows and in the past has hung in a group show with some of the greatest names in 20th Century British Art. His latest book ‘Martin Leman’s Cats’ with a foreword by Sir Roy Strong, has already sold-out and a second edition is in production.
In 2004, we commissioned ‘Horatio the Dockyard Cat‘, an original oil painting by Martin Leman. It depicts a ginger cat named after Lord Horatio Nelson in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The background includes HMS Victory’s masts (which can be seen from our gallery) and a Georgian storehouse (in the same style as the one our gallery lives in). Read more:Martin
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Robin Eckardt cards & originals 2007-07-30 06:31:01 We are please to announce that we are now publishing greeting cards from some of Robin
Eckardt’s paintings. If you have been to the gallery, you may have seen her impressive pictures of yachts sailing as she exhibited with us twice. Two of her paintings (Yellow Sails and Over Head Yacht) are currently on display and keep on amazing our customers with their texture, incredible seas and impression of speed. You can buy these two and other originals from Robin on our webshop or greetings cards from her scenes of London (Picadilly Circus, Big Ben, Saint Paul), New-York and Venice. See all her artworks.
Robin Eckardt was born on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico where she spent the first ten years of her life. She is a fine art printer and captures the most effective points whilst painting her portraits of famous people. Since a very young age she has always had a strong passion for art and has become more serious for the subject throughout her years of study.
She has experienced wi
Jon Everitt cards & originals 2007-08-07 09:39:58 We have just published 31 new greetings cards with illustrations by Southsea-based artist-designer-illustrator Jon Everitt.
Jon is one of those people who can be described as “having a beady mind”… he can find the bizarre in the mundane, the amusing in the boring routine.
Jon, 49, was born in Windsor. “I spent virtually my entire childhood drawing things when I should have been doing other things,” he says. It seemed somehow inevitable that he should become an artist, so he enrolled at Reigate School of Art and Design, “where I spent my time doing other things when I should have been drawing things”.
Then he fell into a career as a freelance illustrator (he hates the word ‘cartoonist’) and designer. Today, Jon is still a freelance (”some people never grow up”) and has illustrated and designed for many famous brand names.
He works in a huge variety of media, both traditional and hi-tech.
Jon tends to worry his partner by rel
The Embarkation of Henry VIII at Dover 2007-08-10 05:59:07
The Embarkation at Dover
By an unknown artist, c.1545
The Royal Collection 2007, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
This fabulous painting of the warship Mary Rose and some of the most important warships in Henry
VIII’s early navy is one of the stars of this summer’s Young Henry VIII exhibition at Hampton Court Palace near London, the Tudor King’s most famous residence.
A series of important Tudor paintings are brought together in the exhibition alongside audiovisual displays, interactive touch screens and historic quotes to tell the story of dashing Prince Henry who founded what became the Royal Navy. Almost the first act of his reign was to order the building of the Mary Rose, a revolutionary warship – the first with gunports in her side to allow broadsides to be fired.
This picture, The Embarkation of Henry VIII at Dover, shows the Mary Rose and her sister warship the Great Harry in 1520 as Henry VIII set sail for a meeting with King Francis I of France – they had signed a pe
Southsea Common - PRINT 2007-08-16 10:05:14
This picture from a lithograph by A. Pernet is a detailed panorama of activity on Southsea seafront in 1865.
Apart from the paddle steamers taking tourists on pleasure trips, the army offficers riding on the common and the bathing machines protecting the modesty of those taking the waters, the scene is almost unchanged from what one sees today. The major exception would be that the pier on the left with its paddle steamer is today the landing place for hovercraft to the Isle of Wight.
This large print (1000 x 490 mm) is now available for £30 on our webshop.
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Portsmouth U.F.O. sends mail to France as balloon goes up over dockyard 2007-08-20 09:22:48
The unidentified flying object seen at high altitude over England’s South Coast a week ago has at last been identified… it was actually 16 multi-coloured, giant helium-filled balloons flying in formation, each one towing a long ribbon tied to a postcard from Portsmouth
Historic Dockyard.
“I was amazed how the balloons stayed together as a close group at least 10 miles after they were released in the strong breeze, and how long we could see them with the naked eye,” said Artists Harbour art gallery director Leon Reis.
“They looked like a bunch of polka dots and within two minutes they were still completely visible, very high in the sky and speeding past Chichester, heading southeast over the English Channel and looking set to reach France
within the hour,” said Leon. “At one point I started to worry about a high-flying light aircraft that appeared to be in their path”.
The balloons were let go by a sales team from the pharmaceutical giant Glaxo SmithKline, who had hired
William Lionel Wyllie original etchings, prints and cards 2007-08-25 06:51:17 The artist WilliamLionel
Wyllie RA was a dominant talent in British maritime art from the end of the 19th century until well into the 20th. His works are on display not only in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard at the Royal Naval Museum and here at Artists Harbour Gallery, but also at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, Tate Britain as well as other collections.
Wyllie was born in London in 1851 and became famous and successful through painting maritime scenes in both oil and watercolour, many of which he published as editions of etchings. Wyllie himself created the etchings from his own pictures.
His name spread, along with that of Charles Dixon, when he worked as an illustrator in the late Victorian era for the popular illustrated tabloids, The Graphic and the Illustrated London News.
A notable Wyllie artwork is a picture (”Come to Southsea and Board the Old Ship”) showing public access to Britain’s iconic 18th-century warship, HMS Victory, on which Admiral Lord Read more:prints
George Cruikshank prints - The Sailors Progress series 2007-08-30 11:14:11 George Cruikshank (1792-1878), was a noted cartoonist with a biting line in sarcasm and political satire. He was also the first illustrator of Oliver Twist, one of the greatest novels penned by his close friend, Charles Dickens, with such memorable pictures as ‘Oliver Asking For More’, and ‘Fagin In The Condemned Cell’. Their friendship ended when, later in life, the cartoonist became a passionate advocate for the temperance movement while Dickens remained opposed. Cruikshank was considered a great enough artist to be exhumed from his original burial place in order to be re-buried in St Paul’s Cathedral, London.
Wikipedia notes that “Cruikshank’s work included a personification of England named John Bull who was developed from about 1790 in conjunction with other British satirical artists such as James Gillray, and Thomas Rowlandson.” Gilray was one of his major influences and Cruikshank eventually replaced him as England’s most pop Read more:George
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HMS Victory in Battle Print by Chris N. Wood 2007-09-06 10:35:35 We now have giclee prints available from the fabulous new picture of HMS Victory
by Portsmouth’s artist Chris
N. Wood. As you may know if you read our newsletter, Chris started this picture following a suggestion of someone in the Ministry of Defence. The idea behind that truly gorgeous small-scale oil painting of HMS Victory (Nelson’s flagship at the Battle
of Trafalgar), was to create a truly iconic image of the Royal Navy.
We’ve now scanned the original oil painting before it gets sent to its new owner, a collector from Portugal who bought the picture while Chris was working on it in our gallery during a reception.
Chris was born in Suffolk in 1952. He studied at Ipswich School of Art followed by a post graduate year at Wimbledon School of Art. This led to working as a graphic designer in central London, running a successful yacht chandlery and working freelance as a fine artist and illustrator. He has taught fine art in a number of colleges and institutions Read more:Print
HMS Warrior & HMS Vanguard print by John Wigston 2007-10-09 10:59:44 The World’s First Battleship & Britain’s Last Battleship
Before the HMS Warrior
was restored to her full glory and installed as one of the great attractions of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on the south coast, she was sent to Hartlepool for complete renovation. While there, local artist John Wigston virtually had her to himself as an artist.
John is a maritime artist of some distinction. A dozen of his paintings were hung in the Queen Elizabeth 2 ocean liner. He painted a series of fine pictures of HMS Warrior and the men who served in her working below decks.
HMS Warrior is a naval icon - the first ironclad, propeller-and-sail driven warship. When she was built she was the greatest warship in the world, impervious to the firepower of all other warships. She revolutionised naval warfare, was the ultimate weapon of the mid-19th Century and formed the blueprint for the great dreadnoughts that followed and whose great grey steel successors dominated war at sea throughout t Read more:Vanguard
We have moved 2007-10-04 06:08:55 Artists Harbour and Art from Britain have moved to offices in Southsea (see Contact us for more details).
Visitors are welcome, by appointment.
From our new address we continue to operate –
Our art publishing business
Fine art reprographics services to artists – large picture copying through our high-resolution scanner, archiving, giclee printmaking and card printing
Our online gallery and web shop
We are looking for a perfect location for a new retail gallery and will re-open Artists Harbour Gallery in the bricks-and-mortar world when we find the right place.
If you need to contact us, our phone number and email addresses remain the same.
Thank you for your support.
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The Battle of Trafalgar print by Steven Dews 2007-10-18 06:21:41 With the 202nd anniversary of the Battle
of Trafalgar
coming later this week, it’s a good time to have another look at one of the finest, large-scale modern maritime paintings.
The picture is Steven
Dews’ Battle of Trafalgar painted over 7 years with the aid of several maritime museum curators to be released in 2005 for the 200th anniversary of this momentous battle.
The original oil painting made £95,000 at Bonham’s auction in their famoust London auction rooms. Since then, series of fabulous prints has been on sale and Artists Harbour is proud to say that we have been one of the most successful sellers of the large canvas print,1676mm x 1016mm(66-inches by 40-inches) which effectively from a distance of 1 metre gives you a £100,000 picture for around £1,000.
We accompany the large print with three historic pictures that illuminate the wonderful Dews canvas.
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RMS Titanic print by Rodney Charman 2007-10-15 04:33:18 At noon on Wednesday, 10th April 1912, the White Star liner R.M.S. Titanic
cast her lines from the White Star Dock and began what was to become the most famous maiden voyage in history.
With Captain Edward J. Smith on the bridge and towed by the tug ‘Neptune’, assisted by tugs ‘Hercules’, ‘Albert Edward’, ‘Hector’, ‘Ajax’ and ‘Vulcan’, the huge liner was manoeuvred into the River Test.
Rodney
Charman has lived all his life near Southampton and has vivid memories of seeing the great liners ‘Queen Mary’, ‘Queen Elizabeth’ and ‘Mauretania’ from the trains that passed very close to the dry docks there. He also remembers “going on a passenger ferry to view the ‘SS United States’ as she arrived on her maiden voyage. I toured the ‘Queen Mary’ when she was at the Ocean Dock, as the White Star Dock was renamed, and have made a few voyages from Southampton Doc
Jolie Brise Winner of the first Fastnet Race, 1925 print by Rodney Charman 2007-10-22 06:51:24
The “Jolie
Brise” was built in 1913 in Le Havre, as a French Pilot boat. In 1925 it won the first Fastnet Race, and again in 1929 and 1930. In 1932 her Skipper won thr Blue Water Medal for a daring rescue of the crew of the “Adriana” which caught fire during the Bermuda Race. The “Jolie Brise” was winner of the Tall Ships Race in 1980, 1986 and 2000.
The first British ocean race was inaugurated in 1925 and was called the Fastnet Race because the course ran from the Isle of Wight, down the Channel and across part of the Atlantic to the lighthouse on the Fastnet Rock, off the southwestern Irish coast, before returning to Plymouth. The race, which has been called the Grand National of ocean racing, was started by a group of hardy sailors in 1925.
Only seven yachts started the 605 mile course on August 15th, which was won by the “Jolie Brise”, in a time of 6 days, 2 hours and 45 minutes, having ghosted through calms and fog. Not so lucky wer Read more:Rodney
Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson print by Lemuel Francis ABBOTT 2007-10-31 07:30:29 One of the most famous of all portraits of Lord Nelson
, this picture by Lemuel Francis
Abbott shows him as a hero in the full glory of his military decorations. The original picture hangs in Britain’s National Maritime Museum at Greenwich.
With a chestful of gold medals and a spectacular “chelengk” in his hat (a plume of triumph with 13 diamond-encrusted sprays representing the French ships at the Battle of Nile set around a rotating central diamond, given by the Turkish Sultan) Nelson – the superstar of his day – cut a dashing but odd and somewhat controversial figure,, as decorations were not as usual in military life as we they are today. Some other naval officers derided him for wearing them.
Dr. Colin White, the renowned Nelsonian scholar and author of The Nelson A to Z, notes that by the end of his life Nelson was entitled to wear the stars of four orders of knighthood and two official gold medals seen here on ribbons around his neck – the King’s Naval Gold Meda Read more:Admiral
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