Portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Suckling" class="extiw" title="w:Catherine Suckling">Catherine Suckling</a> (1725-1767). Copy of a portrait by John Theodore Heins of Nelson's mother when she was 18, just before she met and married the Reverend Edmund Nelson, rector of a Norfolk congregation. A woman of firm character, she bore eleven children. She died aged 42 when her son Horatio was nine, leaving him and his two elder and two younger brothers, and three sisters, to be brought up by their widowed father.
<bdi>After <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:John_Theodore_Heins" class="extiw" title="w:en:John Theodore Heins"><span title="British painter">John Theodore Heins</span></a>
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late 19<sup>th</sup> century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div> after a painting of 18<sup>th</sup> century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div>
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