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ARTHUR WILLIAM DEVIS (BRITISH, 1762-1822) Lord Viscount Nelson in Vice-Admiral’s undress uniform, wearing a cocked hat with his bespoke green eye shade ARTHUR WILLIAM DEVIS (BRITISH, 1762-1822) Lord Viscount Nelson in Vice-Admiral’s undress uniform, wearing a cocked hat with his bespoke green eye shade Oil on canvas 14 x 12in. (35.5 x 30.5cm.) In original carved giltwood and gesso frame decorated with laurel leaves. Christie’s London: British Pictures, 24 November 1998, lot 49. Published: R. Walker, The Nelson Portraits, London, 1998, p. 264, no. 204. Exhibited: Great Yarmouth Museum, Nelson, The Norfolk Hero, 1994. This painting is one of several copies by Devis of his posthumous portrait of Nelson ‘In the dress he wore when he received his mortal wound’ taken from his sketches of the admiral’s body in Victory and originally published as the frontispiece to Dr. Beatty’s ‘Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson’ (1807, see lot 7). This example is framed in identical manner to the example belonging to Nelson’s former friend Admiral Benjamin Page (1765-1845) previously on loan at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and sold by Christie’s London in 2015 for £122,500, suggesting the same source.