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Dying at Nelson buying any available paintings of his influencer girlfriend

#I know he didn't spend much time on land #And the painting isn't this big #but it's a funny mental image #you are on SALE

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I saw this pose reference and thought of Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton.

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"He had another side and that was a ruthless streak, never better shown than in the very callous way that he treated his wife. One can make all sorts of excuses. One can point to the fact that it was a marriage of convenience, that it was a marriage of esteem rather than of love and lust. And that he had found in Emma Hamilton a woman that perfectly matched him in every way and inspired him. But even when those allowances are made, the way that he treated poor Fanny Nelson was really very cruel.

One has to take that as part of the rich tapestry that makes up the man. No one is perfectly pure and wonderful. And one of the great problems of the Victorian portrayal of Nelson was that they tried to twist this very human, flawed man into this impossible hero.

One of the great things about modern scholarship is that we're learning that one doesn't have to be perfect in order to be great, and that great men inevitably have great weaknesses."

Colin White, Head Curator, Royal Naval Museum, in The Great Commanders, "Horatio Nelson."

#copied out after far too many times listening to the same section #because the italicized sentiment fits Wellington just as it does Nelson #horatio nelson #fanny nelson #lord nelson #emma hamilton #the great commanders