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Portrait of the Marquess Wellesley

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The painting was commissioned by the sitter. He is shown dressed in an ensemble of black clothing and sitting on a red upholstered
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A few years after completing the painting, Lawrence depicted Wellesley's future wife the American heiress
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https://www.rct.uk/collection/400643/richard-colley-wellesley-marquess-wellesley-1760-1842
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Wellesley resigned from the government in early 1812 in a failed attempt to replace
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130 cm × 104 cm (52 in × 40.8 in)
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with a curtain in the background. He is wearing the prestigious
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Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad
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from 1809 to 1812 and was regarded as a potential future
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Paintings in the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom
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The Eldest Brother: The Marquess Wellesley, 1760-1842
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It remains part of the 228:National Portrait Gallery 157:Governor-General of India 26: 379:Hutton, William Holden. 693:Countess of Blessington 178:. His successor at the 104:of the Irish statesman 404:. Pen and Sword, 1999. 383:Clarendon Press, 1893. 148: 141: 90:Marquess of Wellesley 661:Francis I of Austria 218:made of it. 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Thomas Lawrence
Oil on canvas
Royal Collection
Windsor Castle
portrait painting
artist
Thomas Lawrence
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
Foreign Secretary
Prime Minister
Regency era
Napoleonic Wars

Portrait of the Duke of Wellington
Irish Aristocracy
Governor-General of India
Duke of Wellington
Peninsular War
Battle of Waterloo
Spencer Perceval
Foreign Office
Lord Castlereagh
defeat of Napoleon
Viceroy of his native Ireland
armchair
Order of the Garter
oil on canvas
engravings
mezzotint

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