Horatia Nelson Exhibition_The Van de Veldes The minute and second hands

The minute and second hands are conventional

Date: circa 1815

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Horatia Nelson Exhibition_The Van de Veldes The minute and second handsA full length portrait of Nelson's daughter, full face, wearing a white dress, red pumps and a miniature of her father around her neck. She is dancing in a rocky foreground with an imaginary landscape in the distance, a tambourine held high in her left hand and her gaze directly engaging the viewer. The coastal scene with mountains and smoke from a volcano on the right, may be intended to represent the Bay of Naples by an artist who had never visited