 Although West took considerable trouble about the accuracy of details in his painting, basing the portraits on over 50 survivors of the battle, he produced, as he admitted himself, a picture "of what might have been, not of the circumstances as they happened".West created two more paintings with Nelson as the subject, "The Death of Lord Nelson in the Cockpit of the Ship "Victory"" and "The Immortality of Nelson", both of which are in the National Maritime Museum.Other artists produced works depicting the same event.