Nelson and Collingwood exchanged portraits when, as young captains and probably in late 1784, they met on Antigua at Commissioner Moutray’s house. Mrs Mary Moutray later recalled, ‘Nelson had lost his hair from fever, and its place had been so grotesquely supplied by the art of the West Indian perruquier, that Captain Collingwood said to him one day, ‘I must draw you, Nelson, in that wig.’ He accordingly made a coloured drawing which bears much resemblance to the later pictures of the hero’. For Nelson’s drawing of Collingwood, and further details of the circumstances, see PAJ3941. Both were owned by the Collingwood family after the sitter's deaths when same-size reproduction lithographs were also made from them, of which PAD3162 is that of the present drawing and PAD3163 that of Collingwood. Both of those prints appear to have come with the originals by bequest in 1932.