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Description: | A half-length portrait in which the sitter is turning to the left and looking directly at the viewer. He is wearing a physician's full-dress uniform of 1805-25. Beatty was senior surgeon on board the 'Victory' at Trafalgar, where he attended Nelson at his death. From 1806 to 1840, he was Physician to Greenwich Hospital and was knighted in 1831.
caption: Sir William Beatty, circa 1770-1842 | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Victory (1765) William Nelson's Navy Beatty Nelson Arthur William paintings W Coamle People Devis Baker | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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