PART FIVE, GROUP C: WELLINGTON'S CAREER

WELLINGTON'S CAREER

Sir Thomas Lawrence

detail of painting by Jan Willem Pieneman,

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

 

 

Sit Thomas Lawrence

by John Lucas

National Trust

 

Sir Thomas Lawrence

by George Dawe, Hermitage, St. Petersburg

The Grenadier, pub in London

reputedly patronized by the Duke of Wellington

APSLEY HOUSE 

Apsley House Number One London

Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess of Wellesley, elder brother of the Duke

from whom Wellington purchased Apsley House in 1817

 

 

Striped Drawing Room with portraits of Waterloo heroes

 

Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch

by David Wilkie, 1822, in the Piccadilly Drawing Room

 

 

The Dining Room, with the Portuguese silver gilt Centerpiece

 

The Yellow Drawing Room

 

 

The Waterloo Banquet by William Salter, 1836

 

The Waterloo Gallery

 

 

The Wellington Shield

 

 

Canova's Monumental Statue of Napoleon

 

The Saxon Service

 

The Waterloo Vase

 

STRATFIELD SAYE, HAMPSHIRE 

 

Stratfield Saye, country home of the Duke of Wellington

in Hampshire, purchased 1817

 

Stratfield Saye House

 

 

Hall, with replicas of French Eagles on display

 

Copenhagen's grave

 

The Park

 

 

Duke of Wellington showing the field of Waterloo to Prince Regent

by Benjamin Robert Haydon, c. 1844

WALMER CASTLE, KENT

Walmer Castle, Kent

 

The room where the Duke of Wellington died.

The Duke of Wellington with Queen Victoria's third son, Prince Arthur, 1851

by Franz Xaver Winterhalter 1805-1873

HORSE GUARDS

Horse Guards, Whitehall

Wellington's Office, Center above the large arch

 

 

 

Wellington's desk