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Description: | This is a late 19th-century copy of a portrait by John Theodore Heins (1697-1756) of Nelson's mother when she was 18, just before she met and married the Reverend Edmund Nelson, rector of a Norfolk congregation. A woman of firm character, she bore him eleven children, but her health was not strong. She died aged 42 when her son Horatio was nine, leaving him and his two elder and two younger brothers, and three sisters, to be brought up by their widowed father. Heins was a German portrait painter who settled in Norwich in 1720 and painted many local people, notable and otherwise. His identification as painter of the original of Catherine Nelson (which was possibly also smaller) is based on an old published reproduction of it, but its present whereabouts are uncertain [amended PvdM 7/09].
Depiction association: nee Suckling.
caption: Catherine Nelson, 1725-1767 | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Family and friends Catherine Nelson paintings Nelson the man | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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