UK-St Helena Heritage Trust

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The UK-St Helena Heritage Trust raises awareness of and funds for the preservation of the built and cultural heritage of the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, one of the UK's Overseas Territories. https://www.uk-sthelenaheritagetrust.org/

Portrait-shaped oil painting attributed to Augustus Earle, c. 1829, which depicts Napoleon's grave on the island of St Helena with, in the foreground two striking trees with fluffy green foliage, the space between their trunks outlining a ghostly silhouette of a standing Napoleon.