Lemuel Francis Abbott

1760–1803

Portrait of the Engraver Francesco Bartolozzi
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Lemuel "Francis" Abbott (1760/61 – 5 December 1802) was an English portrait painter, famous for his likeness of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (currently hanging in the Terracotta Room of number 10 Downing Street) and for those of other naval officers and literary figures of the 18th century.

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Artworks

Lemuel Francis Abbott Portrait of the Engraver Francesco Bartolozzi

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Lemuel Francis Abbott Henry Byne, of Carshalton

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