Portrait of Horatio Nelson is a 1781 portrait painting by the Italian-born English artist John Francis Rigaud depicting the British sailor Horatio Nelson.

It was one of several works commissioned of promising young officers by their commander William Locker.

It was commissioned in 1777 when he was still a lieutenant but not finished until he had returned to England following service during the American War of Independence, by which time he had been promoted to captain.

[3] He is shown in the full dress uniform with the 1780 attack on San Juan in Central America as a backdrop.

Today it is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.