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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Abbott, Lemuel Francis
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Description area
Dates of existence
1760/1-1803
History
Lemuel "Francis" Abbott was born in Leicestershire, probably the son of a clergyman. As a teenager, he studied under the painter Francis Hayman, and went on to become a respected portrait artist, most famous for his paintings of Horatio Nelson and other eighteenth-century notables. He developed a severe mental illness in 1798 and was admitted to Bethlem Hospital, where he was treated by Thomas Munro, who had previously worked with King George III. He died in December 1803.