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Picture of the day

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister. He is one of the commanders who won and ended the Napoleonic Wars when a coalition of European powers defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. This oil-on-canvas portrait, painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence shortly after the Battle of Waterloo, depicts Wellington wearing the uniform of a field marshal with the insignia of the Order of the Garter and the Order of the Golden Fleece. The painting is part of the collection of Apsley House, the London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington.Painting credit: Thomas Lawrence; image restored by Hohum