Regency Portraits Catalogue
Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854), Field Marshal and Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
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Field Marshal; cavalry leader and Wellington's second-in-command at Waterloo.
’J'ai toujours supposé que Lord Paget était le plus beau garçon d'Angleterre …' (General Junot at 1808).
'Lord Anglesey who lost a leg at Waterloo, a tall well-made man; wild, martial face, high forehead, with a large hawk's nose which makes a deep angle where it joins the forehead. A great deal of ease in his manner' (Baron Stockmar's Diary, 1816).
’J'ai toujours supposé que Lord Paget était le plus beau garçon d'Angleterre …' (General Junot at 1808).
'Lord Anglesey who lost a leg at Waterloo, a tall well-made man; wild, martial face, high forehead, with a large hawk's nose which makes a deep angle where it joins the forehead. A great deal of ease in his manner' (Baron Stockmar's Diary, 1816).
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Anglesey 1961Marquess of Anglesey, One-Leg, 1961, p 96 and copiously illustrated throughout.
Cavalry Journal, XIII, October 1923.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.