The Battle of Trafalgar (Stanfield)

The Battle of Trafalgar is an 1836 history painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield.

[1] It depicts the 1805 naval Battle of Trafalgar in which the Royal Navy led by Horatio Nelson defeated a combined Franco-Spanish fleet during the Napoleonic Wars.

The painting was commissioned by the United Service Club and represented a major milestone in Clarkson's career.

An engraving based on Stanfield's work was produced by William Miller, a copy of which is held by the National Maritime Museum.

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