ALFRED GUILLAUME, COUNT D`ORSAY (FRENCH 1801-1852)
FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR WELLESLEY, 1ST DUKE OF WELLINGTON
£26,250
The Forbes Collection at Old Battersea House
Auction: 1 November 2011 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
233.5cm x 145cm (91.9in x 57.1in)
Footnote
Provenance:
Count D`Orsay.
Sir Edward Sherlock Gooch, Bt., godson of the Duke of Wellington.
Sotheby's, Benacre Hall, 9, 10 & 11 May 2000, Lot 555, reproduced p. 276.
Note: The Duke is portrayed in his mid seventies standing on a colonnade balcony with a distant view across a park. Wellington is known to have been pleased with this portrait and is quoted as saying, ‘at last, I have been painted like a gentleman’.