The Triumph of the Duke of Wellington

Image credit: The Royal Hospital Chelsea

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This sketch for ‘The Waterloo Allegory’ is a detailed allegorical panting about the conquest of Napoleon by the Duke of Wellington. The picture shows Wellington wearing a red coat in a chariot drawn by white horses moving to the left of the picture. An angel is overhead and numerous allegorical characters are all around the central figures.

The Royal Hospital Chelsea

London

Title

The Triumph of the Duke of Wellington

Date

exhibited 1816

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 90 x W 132 cm

Accession number

576

Acquisition method

commissioned by the British Institution; finished painting presented to the Royal Hospital, 1820

Work type

Painting

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