Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) Field-Marshal & Prime Minister
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About the work
- Location
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Country: Spain
City: Madrid
Place: British Embassy
This painting shows Wellington a year before his death and about fortyyears after his military campaigns in Spain. It is a reduced version by Weigall of his own full-length portrait (in a private collection) of the sitter, showing him standing in court dress, wearing the Golden Fleece and the Ribbon and Star of the Knight’s Garter. -
About the artist
Henry Weigall junior was a painter of portraits and genre scenes. In later years he painted several royal portraits. His father Henry Weigall (died 1883) was a well known portrait sculptor who exhibited busts of Wellington at the Royal Academy in 1849 and 1853. His son exhibited painted portraits of the Duke in 1853 (painted from sittings given in 1851) and in 1854. Intriguingly Weigall junior also exhibited a work towards the end of his career in 1887 under the title ‘One of the Wellington ‘Eleven’’.
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- Places
- Subjects
- male portrait, man, 19th century costume, riband, ribbon (as Subject - costume accessory), badge, Order of the Golden Fleece, Order of the Garter, Duke, Prime Minister, field marshal
- Materials & Techniques
- canvas, oil, oil painting, feigned oval
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Details
- Title
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) Field-Marshal & Prime Minister
- Date
- 1851
- Medium
- Oil on canvas (feigned oval)
- Dimensions
- height: 76.70 cm, width: 64.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Mr G N Bank, 1900
- Inscription
- none
- Provenance
- Collection of Mr G. N. Bank; from whom purchased by the Office of Works in 1900
- GAC number
- 0/92