Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ('The Master General of the Ordinance')
1 portrait by Richard Dighton
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ('The Master General of the Ordinance')
by and published by Richard Dighton, reissued by Thomas McLean
hand-coloured etching, published August 1818
11 3/8 in. x 7 5/8 in. (289 mm x 195 mm) plate size; 12 7/8 in. x 8 in. (328 mm x 204 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D4721
Sitterback to top
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), Field Marshal and Prime Minister. Sitter associated with 640 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Richard Dighton (1795-1880), Portrait painter and caricaturist. Artist or producer associated with 313 portraits, Sitter associated with 1 portrait.
- Thomas McLean (1788-1875), Publisher and dealer. Artist or producer associated with 1058 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG D4720: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ('The Master General of the Ordinance') (from same plate)
- NPG D13354: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ('The Master General of the Ordinance') (from same plate)
- NPG D13507: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ('The Master General of the Ordinance') (from same plate)
- NPG D13632: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (reduced version)
- NPG D4722: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ('The Master General of the Ordinance') (from same plate)
Linked publicationsback to top
- Cox, Paul, Wellington: Triumphs, Politics and Passions, 2015 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 12 March - 7 June 2015), p. 116 Read entry
Wellington is appointed Master-General of the Ordnance in the Cabinet of Tory Prime Minister Lord Liverpool.
Events of 1819back to top
Current affairs
Peterloo Massacre leaves eleven dead and four hundred wounded as crowds, gathered to hear radical Henry Hunt call for reform of the House of Commons, are forcibly dispersed.Six Acts are passed, stiffening the 1795 Treason Act and introducing a tax on the periodical press which was viewed as seditious.
Art and science
Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Ode to the West Wind during a year of extraordinary creativity in which he also finishes Prometheus Unbound.Lord Byron publishes his tour-de-force Don Juan; one man's mock-epic odyssey through a world without fixed principles.
First ship with a steam engine crosses the Atlantic in twenty-eight days.
International
Thomas Jefferson establishes the University of Virginia.Royal Navy anti-slave squadron is set up to patrol the West African coastline.
French physician Rene Laennac invents the stethoscope.
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