Death mask of Admiral Lord Nelson pollarding German troops sitting on the

German troops sitting on the steps of the Vareddes Town Hall

From a painting on silk by Onishi Keisai

Figures A-S including war

The Lord Mayor

'Old Chairs to mend'

Death mask of Admiral Lord Nelson pollarding German troops sitting on theDeath mask of Admiral Lord Nelson. One of Britain's greatest military figures, Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758 1805) was the victor at a number of naval battles in the Napoleonic Wars, including the Battle of the Nile (1798), Copenhagen (1801) and most famously, Trafalgar (1805) where he was fatally wounded. The mask, showing the eyes open, was almost certainly made when Nelson's body arrived at Portsmouth.