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Article: First Encounters: When Joseph Haydn met Lady Emma Hamilton
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 8, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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By the summer of 1800, Napoleon had made travel about Europe
precarious in the extreme. Sir William Hamilton, the seasoned
British ambassador to Naples, his wife, Emma, and Lord Admiral
Horatio Nelson, en route as a threesome from Sicily to England,
found themselves deflected to Vienna. They were feeling their age
and condition. The Lord Admiral had lost an arm, most of his upper
teeth, and the use of one eye; Sir William was chronically ill; and
the once classically beautiful Emma - painted by Romney, Lawrence
and Reynolds - had put on weight, only partially as a result of her
being (secretly) five months pregnant with Nelson's child. From
Vienna they went to join the Prince and Princess ...
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