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The work was produced for Lord Talbot, a cousin of the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool, and was later acquired from his descendants for the Wellington Collection. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A mezzotint based on the portrait was produced in 1814 by William Say is now in the National Portrait Gallery .
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852), was an Anglo-Irish army officer and statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures in Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, twice serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
The Wellington Memorial at the entrance to Stratfield Saye House. The Duke of Wellington Commemorative Column stands at the entrance to Stratfield Saye on the eastern Heckfield side. The Corinthian column, which can be viewed from the A33, is topped by a bronze statue by Baron Carlo Marochetti. The column was erected in 1863. [8]
Duke of Southampton is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1675 for Charles FitzRoy , an illegitimate son of King Charles II by his mistress, the 1st Duchess of Cleveland . Together with the dukedom, Charles Fitzroy also received the subsidiary titles of Earl of Chichester and Baron Newbury .
Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, East End of Princes Street, Edinburgh, by Sir John Steell (1848–52) [11] Wellington Monument, Somerset, in the Blackdown Hills (commenced 1817, completed in 1854). [12] This monument overlooks the town of Wellington, Somerset, from which Wellington's title was taken.
HMS Duke of Wellington, a 131 gun first-rate ship of the line was named after the first Duke of Wellington. HMS Iron Duke, named after Wellington, was the flagship of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe at the Battle of Jutland in World War I, one of three so named in the Royal Navy. TSS Duke of York, a steamer temporarily renamed Duke of Wellington.
In total there are 317 [1] listed buildings in the city of Southampton, of which 14 are Grade I, 20 are Grade II* and the remainder Grade II.. In England, a building or structure is defined as "listed" when it is placed on a statutory register of buildings of "special architectural or historic interest" by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a Government department, in ...
The Wellington Collection is a large art and militaria collection housed at Apsley House in London. It mainly consists of paintings, including 83 formerly in the Spanish royal collection , given to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , who was prime minister as well as the general commanding the British forces to victory in the Napoleonic ...