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The Wellington Monument is a statue representing Achilles erected as a memorial to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and his victories in the Peninsular War and the latter stages of the Napoleonic Wars. It is sited at the south-western end of Park Lane in London, and was inaugurated on 18 June 1822.
The Royal Exchange Square, Queen Street, in Glasgow, Scotland, has a statue of Wellington astride a horse, outside the Gallery of Modern Art. The statue does feature the bicorne cocked hat associated with him, but it is in his hand, not on his head. The statue is often "defaced" by the placing of a traffic cone on Wellington's head. Wellington ...
He also had an arrangement with the Trustees of the British Museum, which allowed him to make moulds and supply plaster casts of classical sculpture in the museum's collection to country house owners, academies and other institutions. [4] Statue of Achilles (1822) on the Wellington Monument at Hyde Park Corner, London.
Detail of the Wellington Monument. This is a list of public art in Hyde Park, London.. A Royal Park since 1536, Hyde Park covers an area of over 350 acres. [1] Its present landscaping dates largely to the 18th century, when Queen Caroline introduced the Serpentine among other features, and to the 1820s, when Decimus Burton made improvements including the park's triumphal entrance at Wellington ...
Dying Achilles is a sculpture created by Christophe Veyrier (c. 1683; Victoria and Albert Museum, London). The Rage of Achilles is a fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1757, Villa Valmarana Ai Nani, Vicenza). Eugène Delacroix painted a version of The Education of Achilles for the ceiling of the Paris Palais Bourbon (1833–1847), one of the ...
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 Wars.
April 3 – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts (born 1747) April 17 – Dmitry Levitzky, Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter (born 1735) May 6 – Charles Peale Polk, American portrait painter (born 1767) May 11 – Gerard van Spaendonck, Dutch painter (born 1746) May 19 (bur.) – Daniel Havell, English engraver (born 1785)
Close-up of the statue in 2004. The equestrian statue was erected to show the City's gratitude for Wellington's help in assisting the passage of the London Bridge Approaches Act 1827. This Act led to the creation of King William Street. "Wellington" is inscribed on each side of the plinth; on its ends is the inscription "Erected June 18, 1844".