Arthur William Devis was an English painter of history paintings and portraits. He painted portraits and historical subjects, sixty-five of which he exhibited (1779–1821) at the Royal Academy. Among his more famous works are a depiction of the Death of Nelson and a posthumous portrait of Nelson.
Arthur William Devis's Death of Nelson (1805)
Sir William Beatty, Victory's surgeon at Trafalgar (1806)
Devis's posthumous portrait of Horatio Nelson
Mr. and Mrs. Fraser (1785–90)
The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805
The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805 is an 1807 painting by Arthur William Devis portraying the death of Horatio Nelson at 16:30 on 21 October 1805, below decks on his flagship HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar. It is now in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805
West's version of the scene